• MrZee@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Yeah, I did some searching and see that the painting is known by that name but didn’t find anything discussing where the name comes from.

    Wikipedia states that the original title was “La Venus del espejo” which translates to “The Mirror’s Venus”

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rokeby_Venus

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      8 months ago

      So the original title was “The Mirror’s Venus” but they decided to go with “The Toilet of Venus”? Brilliant.

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      8 months ago

      So neither the English nor Spanish Wikipedia pages mention it, but La Venus del espejo can also mean Venus of/from the mirror referring to her appearance in said mirror. No idea where they got toilet from. It couldn’t be a translation mistake as neither word is anywhere similar to one another