Analysis - Birth of Venus
The Birth of Venus was painted in 1486 by Sandro Botticelli. It is a tempera painting, done on canvas, and it is 67.9 inches x 109.6 inches in size. The painting itself depicts, Venus, the goddess of love, rising from the sea as a grown woman and floating to the shore. To her left are Zephyrus, the wind god, and his wife Chloris, the goddess of flowers, escorting her to shore, where Pomona the nymph awaits her. In this painting, the glory of Venus is accorded an almost Biblical sense of importance, likening Venus to the Virgin Mary, the Madonna who ...
