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The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere [ˈnaʃʃita di ˈvɛːnere]) is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, probably executed in the mid 1480s. It depicts the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth, when she had emerged from the sea fully-grown (called Venus Anadyomene and often depicted in art).
It depicts Venus born from the sea foam, blown by the west wind, Zephyr, and the nymph, Chloris, towards one of the Horai, who prepares to dress her with a flowered mantle. This universal icon of...
May 3, 2024 · Birth of Venus is a painting by Sandro Botticelli completed c. 1485. It was painted for the home of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici. It is among the greatest examples of art inspired by Classical literature and sculpture and partly by the Renaissance.
The Birth of Venus is undoubtedly one of the world’s most famous and appreciated works of art. Painted by Sandro Botticelli between 1482 and 1485, it has become a landmark of XV century Italian painting, so rich in meaning and allegorical references to antiquity.
Oct 8, 2021 · A detail of Venus from Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, c. 1485; Sandro Botticelli, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. To Venus’ right (our left) are two figures in the air, busy blowing towards Venus. They have been identified as the Greek god Zephyr, associated with the west winds.
Oct 14, 2023 · The Birth of Venus ranks as one of the best known and most respected works to have come from a considerable career which placed Botticelli as one of the most influential members of the Italian Renaissance movement.
Botticelli's Birth of Venus showcases a rare full-length female nude in 15th-century art, celebrating beauty and love. The painting features Venus, Zephyr, Chloris, and an attendant, with a flat yet deep space.
A unique mythological painting from the Renaissance in Florence, and the first non-religious nude since classical antiquity, The Birth of Venus (Nascita di Venere) belongs to the group of mythological pictures painted by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) in the 1480s, following his return from Rome after completing three fresco paintings in the ...
Dec 6, 2023 · The Birth of Venus. by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. That shell! That pose! That wind! So much in this painting seems impossible, not least its divine beauty. Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, c. 1483–85, tempera on canvas, 172.5 x 278.5 cm (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)
Composition: Botticelli's Birth of Venus is one of the most treasured artworks of the Renaissance. In it the goddess Venus (known as Aphrodite in Greek mythology) emerges from the sea upon a shell aligned with the myth that explains her birth.
