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
Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby souls. Richard Cumberland described him as "splendid, liberal, lofty ... publicly ambitious of great deeds, and privately capable of good ones, ... he made no court to popularity by his manners but he benefited a whole nation by his public works." Archbishop Lord Rokeby died at Clifton in Bristol and was buried in Armagh Cathedral. He was succeeded by Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby, the son of his second cousin Matthew Robinson. The Canterbury Gate at Christ Church, Oxford, completed in 1873, is one monument to Archbishop Lord Rokeby's munificence. The gate is inscribed: Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby The