These two similar pieces, created 325 years apart from each other, are excellent examples of paintings that were influenced by earlier eras. The Venus of Urbino is an oil painting by Titian and the second is Olympia by Manet. Both of these pieces attracted a lot of attention for their eroticism, yet they evoked the same emotions for different reasons. The Venus of Urbino is the previous piece dating back to 1538. It is an oil painting created by Titian, an Italian artist. This is the goddess Venus, depicted however as a more naturalistic woman, lying on a bed. She stares directly at the viewer, known as the female gaze, and appears unconcerned about her nakedness. She holds a bouquet of flowers in her right hand and her left hand covers her pubic area. A dog sleeps at the foot of his bed, a symbol of marital fertility. Titian was commissioned by Guidobaldo II della Rovere, then duke, to create his Bride as a "model of education". It would have decorated a trunk which was the typical wedding gift in Italy at the time. The controversy that this painting aroused was f...