The 'Toilet of Venus' by Velazquez is one of the world's best-known pictures. This life-size study of a naked woman lying on a bed is at first the most simple and obvious of paintings. On closer investigation it proves to be full of puzzling mysteries.
Is the girl Venus at all? Why is a 16th-century Spanish painting known as 'The Rokeby Venus'?

Those who observe Venus include:
Gordon Booth, Publications Department, National Gallery
Michael Levey, Keeper of the National Gallery
Victor Lownes, Managing Director of the Playboy Club
R.A. Morritt of Rokeby Park, Yorkshire
Ed Mullins, art writer
Grace Roe, President of the Suffragette Fellowship
Bill Thompson, artist
Written and produced by Lorna Pegram