Venus in the World of Sandro Botticelli

Sandro Botticelli was a great Italian painter of the Early Renaissance, whose most famous words are Calumny Of Apelles, Adoration Of The Magi, The Birth of Venus and many others. The Birth of Venus was painted in 1486. It depicts the goddess Venus was born and arriving at the sea-shore. At that time, Botticelli was commissioned by the Medici family of Florence to work on this painting. And now it is kept at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. If Giotto created a new world of the Italian realistic painting, then Botticelli made the world more colorful.

In the imagination of the ancient Greeks, Venus was born from the sea as fully grown woman, Plato had ever made an idealist interpretation for the myth, In his mind, beauty would not generate gradually or from unbeautiful things and it is incomparable, Botticelli followed this interpretation during his image creation, especially from the image of Venus which is in accordance with the classical style of the sculpture. The only difference is the position of the hands. The whole picture do not have those grace and elegance depicted by classical sculpture painters but more of a sluggish and weakness. Of course, if we only appreciate this painting on this point, then its artistic value would be greatly reduced.

Botticelli added some distortion when he was creating The Birth of Venus. To see this painting from Venus' neck, the proportion of the hair, hands and feet is a little too large. It seems that the painter tended to stress on the image of the spirit. Therefore, the physical expression became less important. Viewed from the lines, especially the lines of Venus' cloth are very smooth. In contrast, the lines of Aeolus who sent Venus to sea-shore are more complex with rotation. This shows Botticelli's excellent lines depicting techniques. Viewed from the tones, the whole picture is very clear and harmonious. Tranquility and elegance match with each other perfectly and obscure topic hidden behind the mystery.

According to Greek mythology, Venus was born from the sea foam and Botticelli's depicted the scene the goddess of love and beauty was born. The plot and image in this picture is based on a long poem. The poem describes that Venus was born from the Aegean Sea, and Aeolus blows her to the sea-shore quietly, then Rakhil Grigorevna greets her with the silk clothing made from stars. Venus stands on the shells that symbolize the source of her birth. She seems to be fragile and weak, showing no passion to the goddess and the world. She is to tell us that the goodness was born with melancholy to this human suffering.

Botticelli - Venus is my Lover Forever

His feet were lame.

He walked alone in the streets on crutches.

In the last ten years, he lost his property and the job. The nymph Venus who once came into his life had become blurred. The glories of the past seemed to have become passing clouds.

He died quietly in May, 1510.

He never got married the whole life and had no children. The world had forgotten him before his death. He was rediscovered by the pre-Raphaelite and became famous once again after three centuries his death.

He was Botticelli (from 1445 to 1510).

His face was full of Reiki with deep eyes and shapely lips, emitting poetic temperament.

He owned possessed his own workshop at 25. He could not hide his talent and the orders were endless. However, his golden stage was about to carry out vigorously.

In order to decorate the Nobel la Lady Chapel, the painter depicted his first excellent and great work, Magi pilgrimage and received appreciations from the First Family. He seemed to become the son of the royal from then on and went in and out the palace freely.

At this time, he accepted the commission of the Medici family, Lorenzo for drawing decorative pictures for his villa castle and that how "spring" and "The Birth of Venus" were created.

Venus, the most beautiful woman in the world was born.

The graceful and charming Venus was standing on the fan-shaped shells, rising from the sea slowly. The Aeolus was blowing the shells to the shore and his lover - goddess of joy was sprinkling the symbol of love - roses and the goddess of spring was opening her red clothes to embracing Venus who was about to go ashore.

He represented the human pleasures with the help of myth implies. He created the ideal image of female beauty in the fantasy ethereal realm and broke the painting orientation of male protagonist. He abandoned the limited themes of Biblical in the past and used the pagan themes - Greek and Roman mythology which was against by the Church bravely. He opened a new world of free creations for the Renaissance.

The beautiful face of Venus he drew was said to be depicted base on his lover. She was his heroine whether in the portraits of Venus or Madonna or allegory.

However, some scholars of art history believe that,

The Medici family fell in the 1490s.

The years of the Court brought him ten years of brilliant art periods but also buried the seed of tragedy.

A religious leader who pushed the puritanical authoritarian rules appeared in Florence and he attacked that the root of art was simply the shameless exhibition of naked men and women mercilessly. The costumes, jewelries, works of art and classical books were all thrown into the raging fire and turned to dust and ashes.

Botticelli ruined his works in person and said goodbye to the past.

In his later year, was he agreed with the thoughts of Savonarola so that his works represented the smells of religious fanaticism? Or he just put his unstable and upset emotions on the works of religious themes in times of politic crisis atmosphere? No one knows. But we can sure that the beautiful nymph in the privacy of his thoughts never disappeared in his works.