This is Velázquez’s only surviving female nude and one of his most celebrated works. Its nickname, ‘The Rokeby Venus’, originates from Rokeby Park, a country house in County Durham, where the painting ...

Other damage is caused by things around the painting – weather is a big one! And that’s where the experts come in. They can analyse the painting and the damage to figure out what’s happened. Then they ...

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The painting depicts Venus as a nude goddess reclining on a draped couch and looking at her reflection ... Smuggled out of Spain in 1813 during the Napoleonic wars. Rokeby Park.

Just Stop Oil said the glass of the Rokeby Venus painting was smashed with safety hammers Two Just Stop Oil protesters have been arrested after glass protecting the Rokeby Venus painting at the ...

This year has been marked by a rising number of politically-motivated attacks on art. But we should not forget the power of ...

I have joined in the war.” Earlier in 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson smuggled a meat cleaver into the National Gallery and slashed the Rokeby Venus, a painting by Diego Velázquez.

Diego Velazquez’s The Rokeby Venus has been loaned to the ... "Velazquez acknowledges the woman’s gaze in this painting with Venus herself looking in the mirror," they said.