Botticelli’s‚ The Birth of Venus‚ and Titian’s‚ Venus of Urbino are two paintings featuring the female nude‚ Venus as the main figure of the paintings. She is a classical representation of beauty and sensuality. Although these paintings have similar attributes such as the use of linear perspective‚ chiaroscuro‚ and their similar period style they have different hidden meanings. The Birth of Venus shows the story of how Venus came to be and portrays different gods and goddesses while in The Venus of Urbino
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Aphrodite vs. Birth of Venus Throughout the history of art the human form has captured artisans and their audiences. While the human form has always been acceptable in art‚ the nude female form continues to stir up controversy. Praxiteles was a famous artist during the Greek late classical period who sculpted and created controversy on the island of Knidos when he made Aphrodite of Knidos (350-340 B.C.). This new idea of a nude goddess made the island famous‚ putting it on the map as a
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The Birth of Venus (1635) ------------------------------------------------- Nicolas Poussin ------------------------------------------------- Sean E. Masih Art History 102 August 25‚ 2013 While the Philadelphia Museum of Art may not house some of the more famous artwork from the Baroque period‚ their acquisition of Poussin’s “Birth of Venus” was nothing short of a savvy purchase. Hungry for Western currency‚ the painting was sold by the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg in 1930 under
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The Birth of Venus (Botticelli)- Renaissance Venus of Urbino (Titan)- Renaissance The Birth of Venus (Cabanel)- 19th Century Venus Fauvist-Cubist - 20th Century Mythology of Aphrodite/Venus The mythology of Venus lies within the roots of Neolithic Greece. Known as ‘Eurynome’‚ which translates to the “wide wandering one”‚ she was born of primal Chaos‚ dancing on the water. Eurynome transformed the North Wind into
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Fresco Fresco which means fresh in Italian‚ is a form of painting murals in earth tones are directly applied to wet plaster. The first fresco paintings have been dated as far back as 30‚000 years ago. The earliest discoveries being of paintings done in the Chauvet cave located in France. More than 15‚000 years ago frescoes were created in other caves in Lascaux‚ France and Altamira‚ Spain. These examples of early fresco paintings are brilliant testimony of the long history of this form of art
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Once hung in a Medici villa‚ Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus‚ ca. 1485‚ is one of the most treasured artworks of the Renaissance. The composition is opened up more‚ compared to Botticelli’s Primavera‚ a similar styled painting done a few years prior. The central figure in this tempera painting is the goddess Venus (also known as Aphrodite in Greek mythology). She graces us with her presence by floating to the shore‚ pushed from the winds of gods (Zephyr accompanied by Chloris)‚ on a seashell
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The 1970’s brought folk music and disco‚ and in the 80’s it became rap and Hip-Hop. The Birth of Hip Hop originally started in the streets of New York in the 1970’s. It later began to be widely known in the early 80’s as it generally became a musical art form that has been around for over 20 years. It’s derive came from a young generation of Black people and Latino-Americans in the slums of Bronx to send political messages and reach a particular audience to help create change. Hip-Hop was formed
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Raphael was a painter who was considered one of the great masters of the Italian Renaissance.He enjoyed wealth and power during his lifetime unlike many other artists of the time who were not to be recognized until after their deaths. Rafael was born in Italy on April 6‚ 1483. He was the son of a very successful artist‚ but his father passed away when he was 11. Growing up‚ Raphael was always surrounded by talented and wealthy people. He was sent to study in Perugia when he was 16 and then when he
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The Rock music era affected society in more negative ways than positive ones. Rock music is a genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the 1950’s. It gained its origins from rhythm and blues‚ jazz and rock and roll. The exact date of the birth of Rock music is difficult to determine .It was said that no one planned the Internet‚ but it was conceived and then it took over the world. The same can be said for Rock music (Dister‚ 19). Few would dispute that rock music owes most of it
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Birth Control Movement in the 1920s In the 1920s‚ life was more conservative than it is today. People did not openly talk about sex‚ planned parenthood‚ and they definitely did not agree on the use of contraceptives. Many people in the United States thought that birth control was morally wrong; however‚ a woman named Margaret Sanger would fight to make major changes in this generation that would change our outlook and our opinions about contraceptives forever. Margaret Sanger was passionate about
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