Down Below
Hear no, speak no, see no
In the ‘Venus of Urbino’
Some say it’s rather rude
That tantalising nude.
On a chaise-longue does she lie
And looks you in the eye
Seductive though I doubt
As maids are thereabout.
A dog is curled up too
By her feet, so I put to you
Although it’s quite hypnotic
It’s really not erotic.
Art historians debate
From the Uffizi to the Tate
If she’s playing with down below.
But me I think not so...
Her left hand casually
Simply there for modesty...
(But I bet that’s not what Titian
Was wishin’!)
- Category: Poetry
- Tags: Venus of Urbino (Titian) Uffizi gallery, Florence. Check it out!
3 comments add one below
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Neville Hunt over 3 years ago
I’ve decided to go highbrow... with lowbrow connections (as they might (not) have said in BBC’s ‘Twenty Questions’)
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Neville Hunt over 3 years ago
Thank you very much Drew. That is high praise indeed. I wasn’t aware that you had such knowledge of the picture, which I think Mary Beard discussed in a programme just before Christmas. I didn’t watch it because I was cooking at the time, but having been taken to the lovely Urbino on one of my foreign trips, I did some research... and it seemed rather drabbleable!
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Neville Hunt over 3 years ago
...and the last two lines were a force-fit (because of the unforgiving wordcount) but simply HAD to included the artist’s name!
