Rokeby Venus Venus looking into a mirror, and as both had had close ties to the Spanish court, their examples would have been familiar to Velázquez. However, "this girl with her small waist and jutting hip, does not resemble the fuller more rounded Italian nudes inspired by ancient sculpture". One innovation of the "Rokeby Venus", when compared to other large single nude paintings, lies in the fact that Velázquez depicts a back view of its subject who is turned away from the viewer. There were precedents for this in prints by Giulio Campagnola, Agostino Veneziano, Hans Sebald Beham and Theodor de Bry,
Rokeby Preparatory School late 2009: "Rokeby: the first 125 years". The uniform of Junior Rokeby (itself started in 1970), until the unification of the junior and senior schools, was a grey pair of shorts above the knees, a grey woollen blazer with the Junior Rokeby wheel crest and a red and black schoolboy cap. A white, short-sleeved shirt with a red and black striped tie was worn. The senior school wore grey trousers with a grey woollen blazer, distinguishable from the Junior Rokeby blazer by its red and blue piping on the lapels. The tie carries grey, black and red stripes. In 2009,