Sleeping Venus (Giorgione) Venus" of Velázquez, Goya's teasing "La maja desnuda", and "Olympia" by Manet, and other works by Ingres and Rubens, to name but a few. Sleeping Venus (Giorgione) The Sleeping Venus, also known as the Dresden Venus, is a painting traditionally attributed to the Italian Renaissance painter Giorgione, although it has long been usually thought that Titian completed it after Giorgione's death in 1510. The landscape and sky are generally accepted to be mainly by him. In the 21st century, much scholarly opinion has shifted further, to see the nude figure of Venus as also painted by Titian, leaving Giorgione's contribution
Rokeby, Tasmania It attracted national and international professional skateboarders in a competition held there in January 2009, with $50,000 prize money on offer. Rokeby, Tasmania Rokeby is a suburb of Hobart, capital of Tasmania, Australia on the eastern shore of the Derwent River. It is part of the City of Clarence local government area. Rokeby started as Rokeby House, a farmhouse in the Clarence Plains area, in the 19th century and along with the nearby suburb of Clarendon Vale, was developed into a mainly public-housing suburb of Hobart in the 1970s. It was modelled after public housing projects that took place in