The Birth of Venus.

PAINTING CARD:

Title/Name: The Birth of Venus.

Author: Botticelli.

Year: 1484

Style: Renaissance.

Technique: tempera on canvas.

Location: Gallery Uffizi, Florence, Italy

General description: 

This is The Birth of Venus, this paint represent the summit work of Sandro Botticelli.

Sandro Botticelli was a painter of the Italian Quattrocento. This painting has a mitology theme, that show the birth of Venus the goddess of love. The work was realized between 1484 and 1486.

The painting was making about tempera on canvas. The light is similar in all the work, but in the sea look like more like that was maked with the white. In the middle of the painting we can see Venus, to her right was a pair formed by Céfiro and his wife Cloris and to her left the Hora Primavera.

Botticelli used black lines marking the outlines of the figures protagonists and uses soft and almost uniform to provide an air of unreality to the canvs light colors.

Also we can see a contrast to thr pallor of Venus and the other two female characters with darker skin of the male character. The figures are modeled surface and are somewhat flat, with slender bodies and poor muscle development.

The composition of the work was dynamism, movmente and tension in the scene. This picture has the historical function, because show part of the histoy of mitology.

All the painted include the historical, the mitology, the landscape, the portrait, the genre.

The landscape is one of this subject matter, because the scene happens in the sea, the portrait show the four people with details and the genre is important because appear one man between the three womans. 

The figures are idealised that provide a deep lyricism to this picture.

This work show and represent the birth of the Venus, that was good because the history about the picture are interesting and you learn about the mitology and about the art of the 15th period.