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Essay on Analytical Analysis of Sandro Botticelli Birth of Venus

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Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus.

The Birth of Venus painted by Sandro Botticelli from 1484-1486, depicts the birth of Venus into the world. The painting shows Venus the goddess of love and beauty coming out of the sea as if she was coming into the human world as a beautiful woman. She is nude in the painting covering one of her breasts with her right hand, her left hand holding her long blonde hair, which covers her pubic region. The nudity of Venus in this painting shows not the humility of the naked body but the exotericism of the female body. There are three other figures in the painting, two intertwined figures on the left side and a woman on the right standing on the shoreline. The woman on the shoreline is someone who is …show more content…

Botticelli was very interested in literacy and love poems. The birth of Venus shows that Botticelli used love poems to draw his subject matter; he shows this in his lack of perspective throughout the painting giving us a feeling that we are in a poem or an unreal world. The colors that are used are slightly desaturated giving the painting a very soft feel of love and birth. The figures in the painting are not perfect they have irregularities much like how figures can be in a poem; the literacy of love poem only focus’ on certain parts of the body not giving a real perspective on the scene.

This whole painting does not give you a reality of the scene. The figures in the painting are very unreal in how they stand and how they fill the space of the painting. Venus stands in a classical contrapposto stance but her weight is shifted very far to the left making the stance impossible in real life. The painting shows how Botticelli’s style does not focus on reality or showing the correct perspective of the how the scene would look like in real life. This painting shows that Botticelli is not interested in showing the classical composition of the figure. Botticelli does an amazing job of creating a beautiful scene that draws your attention away from the parts that do not really work. Venus has very elongated neck, her shoulders fall very steeply and her left arm comes off her shoulder quite oddly

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