Boticelli- Paintings
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Tiffney Quin Mortensen
Humanities 201 Honors
Journal Entry - Renaissance Art
The Birth of Venus
There are few paintings that are as stunning and intricate as Boticelli's Birth of Venus. Painted for the villa of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici at Castello, the artwork is probably the most famous Renaissance piece today, with the exception of Da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
In the quest for balance and perfecion, Boticelli was among the Florentine artists of the second half of the fifteenth century who strove for a solution to this question. One of his most famous pictures represents not a Christian legend but a classical myth - the birth of Venus. The classical poets had been known all through the Middle Ages, but only at the time of the Renaissance, when the Italians tried so passionately to recapture the former glory of Rome, did the...