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"THE BIRTH OF VENUS by Sandro Botticelli, 1484-1486, Tempera on canvas, 172.5 cm × 278.9 cm (67.9 in × 109.6 in)\n\nTHIS PAINTING IS AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE AS A HANDMADE OIL REPRODUCTION FROM 1ST ART GALLERY: https://www.1st-art-gallery.com/Sandro-Botticelli-Alessandro-Filipepi/Birth-Of-Venus-La-Nascita-Di-Venere.html\n\nABOUT THIS PAINTING: Venus the ancient goddess of love is the embodiment of all our notions of beauty. Is it any wonder that artists throughout history have been tempted to capture and interpret that ideal. \n    The best know celebration of that beauty is Sando Botticelli’s, The Birth of Venus.\n    Venus is the Roman Goddess of love, sex, beauty, desire and fertility. In Botticelli’s work, she is a celestial, heavenly being, a cool piece of marble, like the ancient statues which Botticelli may has studied in preparation for his work. \n     In this painting, Venus arises from the water, newly-born and fully-grown, standing on a giant scallop shell—a perfect pearl. \n     To the left is Zephyr, the wind god, blowing Venus’s hair amidst a shower of flower blooms and intertwined with a young female, thought to be Aura, a minor deity.\n     To the right, is a maiden ready to attend and clothe Venus as she disembarks from her shell. She is thought to be one of the three Hours, handmaidens to Venus, carrying a magnificent billowing cloak.\n     With her long neck and torso, Botticelli’s Venus is a highly idealized and stylized vision of beauty. \n     She stands in a classic contrapposto pose, a very stable position, where on leg is weight bearing, pushing the hip up at an angle, and offset by the shoulders angled in the opposite direction. However a plumb line indicates she is swaying, decidedly to the right, giving the impression she is floating. \n     Her red windblown hair cascades down the length of her body, the end held in her hand forming a shape alluding to the female genitalia. \n     Seven Leonardo da Vinci’s senior, Botticelli is important as the link between the iconic styles of medieval religious art the enlightened figurative art of Renaissance."
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