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The Sleeping Venus is an oil painting on canvas begun by the Italian Renaissance master Giorgione and completed by Titian after the former's death in 1510. One of Giorgione's last works, it portrays a nude woman whose profile seems to follow that of the hills in the background. This lone nude, unprecedented in Western painting at the time, influenced numerous future artists. The work is now held in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, Germany.Painting: Giorgione and Titian