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 (poem) song by William Hawes, an opera called "Rokeby Castle" by William Reeve, and a projected opera by Glinka from which only one song survives. The actor-manager William Macready wrote, produced and starred in a stage version of "Rokeby" in 1814. Another adaptation by George John Bennett, a five-act play called "Retribution, or Love's Trials", was produced at Sadler's Wells in 1850. The artist J. M. W. Turner produced a watercolour of the river Greta at Rokeby in 1822, which had been commissioned from him as an illustration to Scott's poem. The unincorporated area of Rokeby, Nebraska, is believed to be