Sandro Botticellis Painting, The Birth of Venus :: Visual Arts Paintings Art

Sandro Botticellis Painting, The Birth of genus VenusSandro Botticelli (1444-1510) was a Florentine painter. Almost all ofBotticellis life was spent in Florence. His genre of photo wasbased around mythological ideals and also religious subject matter.Botticelli painted in a highly personal style characterized by elegantexecution, a sense of melancholy, and a strong emphasis on linedetails appear as sumptuous still lifes. His paintings like The Birthof Venus, were a great impact on the Humanist artistry movement. Humanismwas a belief in human effort rather than religion, showing emphasis oneducation and the expansion of knowledge focusing especially onclassical antiquity.1The Birth of Venus shows Venus riding upon a giant cockle shell,intently this focuses our attention directly towards her. Otherfigures in the painting include Zephyrus (the west wind) and the nymphPomona. The painting is a mythological narrative which illustrates thebirth of Venus, goddess of love.2 The narrative h as abandoned us theexplanation that Zephyrus (the west wind) blows Venus, born of thesea foam and carried on a cockle shell, to her sacred island, Cyprus.There, the nymph Pomana runs to meet her with a brocaded mantle.3Botticelli has achieved a sense of movement in the painting Zephyrusgusts catch the brocaded mantle in undulation, carrying also theperfumed rose petals that swiftly fall upon the whitecaps.The Birth of Venus was painted in ca.1482 and has been exhibited atthe Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence. This painting was intended tobe one of Botticellis most famous artworks painted for the Medici.The Medici were enthusiastic art collectors of the humanist artmovement during the Renaissance. This painting can also be considereda relevant work of art, and the rebirth of the ancient ideal of beautyin the early Renaissance.The Birth of Venus is a work measuring approximately 5 8 x 9 1.