Sandro Botticelli: The Goddess Of Love Venus

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I dream of painting and then I paint my dream (Gogh, 1853) Sandro Botticelli was born in the mid-1440s in Florence, Italy. As a boy, he apprenticed as a goldsmith and then with master painter Filippo Lippi. By his forties, Botticelli was himself a master and contributed to the decoration the Sistine Chapeland he Sandro Botticelli was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance-era. That work is Birth of Venus. The painting was Venus and Mars and it’s completed around 1485 and the nineteenth-century. The Title of the painting intimidates the two mythological people who had a two-time affair. The Goddess of Love Venus who had unlawful relationship with the God of War Mars and she is still married to lame blacksmith Vulcan, who forged Cupid’s …show more content…
It seems likely that Botticelli worked out the concept for the painting, with its learned allusions; it is widely seen as representation of an ideal view of sensuous love or sensational. The painting tells story about the personality or what he or sees in the environment. The painter paints this work because of Giuliano’s relationship with the married Simonetta? Were they lovers or a platonic relationship? The question was divided historians, over the years and probably we will never know the truth because there are many interpreters. Whatever is the answer to the relationship was short lived of Simonetta because she died of tuberculosis on April 26th 1476, a year after the jousting tournament (fight in horseback lance). On the day of her funeral, the city of Florence came to a stand-still as thousands of mourners attended the funeral. Ironically, was assassinated exactly the two years to the day on 26 April 1478 in the. The lover Guilano was killed by a sword and was stabbed 19 times. The painting depicted in a traditional classical God-like way, unlike the way that

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