Search results
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...
8 paź 2021 · “The Birth of Venus” painting is an Early Renaissance masterpiece, holding not only the immaculately defined Venus on her gilded scallop shell, arriving on the shores, but also the immaculate artistry of a painter that was not well-known for his time, but who poured out the depths of his soul onto his canvas, giving us a sensory experience ...
Venus. Botticelli's Venus, the goddess of love, is one of the first non-biblical female nudes in Italian art and is depicted in accordance with the classical Venus pudica. However, she is as far as a precise copy of her prototype as the painting is an exact illustration of Poliziano's poetry.
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.
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). The painting is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.
