The Birth of Venus

The Birth of Venus is a truly magnificent piece of artwork. It was painted around 1480 with tempera on canvas. This painting was the first large mythological painting since antiquity. Botticelli painted this during the Renaissance era. Here are excerpts from Stanze per la Giostra, by Angelo Poliziano, that are though to be what Botticelli painted his image about. “A young woman with nonhuman countenance, is carried on a conch shell, wafted to shore by playful zephyrs…the Hours (Goddess of the seasons) treading the beach in white garments, the breeze curling their loosened and flowing hair…you could swear that the goddess had emerged from the waves, pressing her hair with her right hand, covering with the other her sweet mound of flesh…she was received in the bosom of the three nymphs (Gods) and cloaked in a…

– The Birth of Venus. While the Romans knew Venus as an ancient Roman goddess, the Greeks recognize the goddess as Aphrodite. The representation of mythological subjects was the trend back in Renaissance. Despite the different names, the main character of this painting symbolizes fertility, love and beauty. Botticelli followed closely to the trend and represented Venus as a symbol of beauty where she looks ethereal and luminous despite standing tall and undressed. Botticelli was also known for…

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see," once said Edgar Degas. Sandro Botticelli created the "Birth of Venus," around the 1480's to do exactly that; to make the world see the goddess Venus in his own portrayal. Specifically about the artist, Botticelli, is little known around the world until this piece of artwork was created. The journal states, "This preeminence may be due to chance only, but to some will rather appear a result of deliberate judgment; for people have begun to…

Ellis 1 Brooke Ellis Humanities 12 pm MWF Writing assignment 11/17/12017 The difference between male and female nude art: Birth of Venus & David Paintings and sculptures with no clothes are strangely common in the art in the Western part of the world. Nude is may seem completely natural when one considers how common the state of being nude is in every human life, from the day you are born to the bath, and even to the bedroom. In art, however, nude figures obviously relate very little to…

Humans are bound together through experiences and events that we share and emotions that we feel. This could be anything from birth and death, to love and hate, and can even go as far as the things we study and learn. These things can be traced from the current times and back to when the first humans walked the Earth.This bond we share as humans is known as the human condition. The human condition is not something that can be summed up easily, because it covers such a vast part of human life.…

the superficial captivating looks, but rarely is the internal beauty viewed. This can be classified as an artistic movement due to many artists having a focus on making paintings that represented the ideal image of a woman during that specific time period. During the fifteenth century the perfect image of a woman was based off of the famous painting The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli in 1483. During this time, the European movement was taking place which allowed this painting to stress…

The scene of Renaissance art is not exactly how many paint it today. While during the fifteenth century Renaissance a plethora of art as well as artists were created, the concept of ‘artistry’ was completely foreign. Today, when we see Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” and Michelangelo’s statue of David, we identify both as art and comparably we recognize the beauty of the art forms that they are. However, during the Renaissance, Botticelli, a painter, and Michelangelo, a sculptor, would have…

picked the Birth of Venus because I saw this painting in my Western Civilizations course here at Maryville College and it was the one that stuck out the most to me. It is a unique, mythological painting from the Renaissance Period painted in Florence, Italy. The Birth of Venus 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 Sistine Chapel for Pope Sixtus IV. The…

“Galatea vs. Birth of Venus” From the detailed hands of antiquity, both the work of Botticelli and Raphael speak to the ages through near perfection. So often the work of the Renaissance brought new life to the classics, reminding us of the footprints of humanity. Seen in both “Birth of Venus” (ca. 1482) and “Galatea” (ca. 1513), the theme of divine love is portrayed through the mythical ideals of the feminine form. An ode to nature through the sexual sense of the female nude, both works…

Cabanel 's piece The Birth Of Venus,1875, is another depiction of the popular Venus figure.The depiction of Venus by Cabanel shows society’s standard of femininity and ideal beauty which is still a part of our culture and the perception of women as sexual beings. Venus is portrayed as a sexual,delicate,curvy figure who embodies sensuality and appears to be in a erotic, alluring state which entices the viewing eye, as she is the tool of seduction. The ideals of femininity for the longest time…