Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Birth of Venus
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Birth of Venus
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Alternate Title:
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Nascita di Venere
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Image View:
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Right side, Flora prepares to mantle Venus with a cloak
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Creator:
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Sandro Botticelli (Italian painter, ca. 1444-1510)
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Location:
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repository: Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Piazzale degli Uffizi
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GPS:
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+43.768639+11.255214
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Date:
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ca. 1482-1485 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Renaissance
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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painting
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Material:
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tempera on canvas
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Technique:
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painting and painting techniques
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Measurements:
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172.5 cm (height) x 278.9 cm (width)
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Description:
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The subject is the same as in the Primavera, namely the springtime advent of Venus, with Zephyr carrying Chloris on the left, the roses generated by his warming breath falling to the earth, and Flora on the right, clad in her white dress painted with budding flowers and preparing to mantle the goddess with a fully flowered cloak. Here, however, Venus appears resplendently nude and in her Classical form, in fact so shown for the first time since antiquity. Her gesture is related both to a description in Ovid and to the study of the ancient statue type of the Venus pudica. The Birth of Venus is also the first example in Tuscany of a painting on canvas; a ground of alabaster color helped make the tempera colors vibrant. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-BS-UG-BV-A09
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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