The Birth Of Venus By Sandro Botticelli

The Birth of Venus is a painting created by Sandro Botticelli in the mid 1480’s on canvas using tempera, it was and still is a marvelous piece of art. The way Botticelli created the painting, was he put emphasis on Venus’ nudity as the focus point of the painting. Every detail in The Birth of Venus depicts major meaning, and can be described in depth. The Roman mythology behind the painting describes a birth of a Goddess in Roman and Greek Mythology. Botticelli's The Birth of Venus was created with, also every minor detail in the painting has a major meaning, and last but surely not least depicts the Roman Mythology behind the painting.
The painting The Birth of Venus displays the nudity of Venus, which is a painting style that was used by Botticelli to create this painting. Botticelli used nudity to create the image of Venus to make her pop out from the rest of the people in the painting (see figure 1). This painting style was the first of its kind during the Renaissance in Italy. Paintings and sculptures created during the Renaissance era, in Italy and everywhere else like it, displayed men’s dominance over women
Next to Venus you can see pink flowers, flying in the wind, toward Venus (see figure 2). These flowers, according to mythology, were used to create love potions to cast a spell on someone to love another. The flowers are flying in the picture around Venus, because she is the Goddess of Love and Beauty. You can see a man carrying a woman on the left-hand side of the painting, and you can see the man blow wind towards Venus (see figure 2). The man is Zephyrus, carrying his wife Flora, blowing the wind. Lastly, you can see a women holding a cloth the was blowing in the wind as if she was directing it towards Venus, to cover her. The women about to cover Venus with a cloth is Horae, the Goddess of Seasons (see figure