The Worship of Venus is an oil on canvas painting by the Italian artist Titian completed between 1518 and 1519, housed at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain.

[1] It describes a Roman rite of worship conducted in honour of the goddess Venus each 1 April.

On this occasion, women would make offerings to representations of the goddess so as to cleanse "every blemish on their bodies".

The older woman checks on the decorations with the use of a mirror which she holds high in her extended right hand.

The foreground of the canvas is thronged with a swarm of male infants, or putti, who distract themselves in activities such as climbing trees, leaping, flying, gathering apples, lying around, fighting, fondling, shooting arrows and pulling each other's hair.