Reclining River Nymph at the Fountain

His Reclining River Nymph at the Fountain (1518) shows with what assurance he translated a Renaissance model—Giorgione’s Venus—into his personal language of linear arabesque. This work inaugurated a long series of paintings of Venus, Lucretia, the Graces, the judgment of Paris, and other subjects that serve…

At the same time, his Reclining River Nymph at the Fountain of 1518 illustrates his knowledge of Giorgione and Venetian painting and points the way to the group of highly erotic female nudes of his later works.