The Venus of Urbino was painted for Guidobaldo della Rovere, the heir of Francesco Maria della Rovere, Duke of Urbino. 

This picture  is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful and significant portrayals of Venus in the history of painting. 

If the pose of this Venus brings to mind that of Giorgione's Sleeping Venus in Dresden (which the young Titian had completed after Giorgione's death) the intent of the painting is quite different. 

This is an extremely fine composition. The warm, golden figure of the beautiful woman with her cascading curls, the attractive movement of her arm and the malicious expression on her face. The small dog lazily curled asleep, the two maids rummaging in the background, the world outside the window.  There is an intimacy of this scene of almost domestic simplicity in a warm, human reality. 

It is interpreted as an allegory of marital love. There might be a connection with the wedding of Guidobaldo della Rovere and Giuliano Varano in 1534.