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Botticelli was a Renaissance rule breaker. During this era of art painting nude and a woman no less was obscene. Nudity of women was reserved for recreations of Eve from the biblical story of her and the apple. Then Botticelli decided to paint a nude woman that was not as ghastly as Eve. Instead she was the goddess of love herself, Venus. This was another part of the novelty surrounding Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus (1482-1485). Many of the paintings in the Renaissance were focused on Christian

The works of Sandro Botticelli are among the most revered of renaissance painting. The sweeping curves of his women and the ethereal beauty of their gazes are recognized instantaneously: from a grandmother in a small town to the cognoscenti of New York or Paris, few can claim to be unmoved by his work. Patronized by the Vatican as well as one of the most rich and powerful Florentines of his time, Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, Botticelli was hugely popular in his own day. His most magnificent

Browning’s intellectual curiosity and vivid interest in men were allied with a singular aloofness from the movements and revolutions of his time. Browning’s mind was impervious to doubt, and his confidence in the value of life was constitutionally unshakable, “it means intensely, and means good:”(Browning, Fra Lippo Lippi, line-314). His vision is so clear and comprehensive that he viewed his subject on numerous planes. He makes his readers see and understand each of his characters in their habit

I was assigned Botticelli, one of the great masters from the Early Renaissance. Botticelli was known for his highly realistic, especially for the time, religious paintings and being a member of the Golden Age art movement in the 15th century. He utilized a style known as “Gothic Realism” where flight of fancies and interpretation were not taken on the works of art, but rather accurately depicting scenes with realistic surroundings and figures were what was optimal to translate to the viewers. It

The Primavera (alternatively known as the Allegory of Spring), painted by Botticelli c. 1842. Since its first discussion by Giorgio Vasari in 1550 , the contextual and allegorical details of the Primavera’s iconography have been of great interest. This essay will argue that despite this intense division amongst scholars, there is an overarching theme of transformation and the amalgamation of old and new interpretations of various literary and philosophical texts. The painting in itself is a renaissance

The “Black Venus” has many visual elements. Some of the elements apparent to are line, shape, colors, texture, balance and symmetry. Lines form shapes on the bathing suit worn by the Black Venus. Shapes that appear in the figure are hearts and flowers which contribute to the intended message of this piece of art. Colors that also contribute to the artwork are yellow, orange, white, blue, red and green. All of those selected colors are very lively, giving the solid black figure a live mood. The figure

Christopher Joel Acosta ARH 1000 Chosen artist: Fernando Botero   Fernando Botero A. Fernando Botero, a Colombian artist , is one of the most famous still living Latin American sculptor and artist in the world. I chose this artist, because he is Colombian like me, and because of his unique style of painting like no others. The artworks I will be analyzing are the “ Still life of Mandolin “ and “ Pablo Escobar’s Death “ . B. He was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1932, at the age of four

Patricia Piccinini is an artist born in Africa in 1965, who now lives and works in Australia. Her art focuses on technological intervention in producing; maintaining and enhancing life, the relationship between the natural and the artificial; familial love, maternal and children’s relationships with products and technology. Her main art mediums are digital media, computer-manipulated photography, video and sculpture. Her artworks are her personal response to ethical issues of the contemporary world

Beauty a Warbler on a Plum Tree Tsukioka Settei's, Beauty a Warbler on a Plum Tree, originated in Japan around 1710 to 1786. The artwork is a painting hung on a textile scroll, featuring ink and color on silk. The work is featured on the third floor in the Pavilion for Japanese Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, alongside other scrolls by Settei. The scroll portrays a beautiful woman in traditional Japanese dress, peeking from behind a screen called a shoji screen, to admire a small bird

nude female form still today stirs up controversy. When Praxiteles sculpted Aphrodite of Knidos (350-340 B.C.), of the Greek late classical period, a risqué nude goddess had never been rendered. Approximately 1,100 years after Aphrodite of Knidos, Sandro Botticelli depicted the goddess Venus nude in his painting Birth of Venus (ca. 1482) during the Early Italian Renaissance, a time when the frantic Dominican monk Girolamo Savonarola preached strict boundaries and improvement in society. Although there