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The Birth of Venus: A Novel is a 2003 novel by Sarah Dunant, a bestselling British author. [1] [2] [3] The story is set in the late 15th century in Florence, Italy.It was first published by Little, Brown in 2003 with the title The Birth of Venus: Love and Death in Florence.
The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere [ˈnaʃʃita di ˈvɛːnere]) is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, probably executed in the mid-1480s. It depicts the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth, when she had emerged from the sea fully-grown (called Venus Anadyomene and often depicted in art).
It depicts not the actual birth of Venus from the sea, but her transportation in a shell as a fully mature woman from the sea to Paphos in Cyprus. She is considered the epitome of the Classical Greek and Roman ideal of the female form and beauty, on par with Venus de Milo. For Bouguereau, it is considered a tour de force. The canvas stands at ...
The Birth of Venus (French: Naissance de Venus) is a painting by the French artist Alexandre Cabanel.It was painted in 1863, and is now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.A second and smaller version (85 x 135.9 cm) from ca. 1864 is in Dahesh Museum of Art. [1]
Sandro Botticelli, Uffizi Gallery, Florence 1484–1486 Nicolas Poussin, 1635–36, Philadelphia. Through the desire of Renaissance artists reading Pliny to emulate Apelles, and if possible, to outdo him, Venus Anadyomene was taken up again in the 15th century: besides Botticelli's famous The Birth of Venus (Uffizi Gallery, Florence), another early Venus Anadyomene is the bas-relief by Antonio ...
Consider Michelangelo’s famous “Creation of Adam,” Sandro Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” or Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.” When you think of Western art’s grand ...
The Birth of Venus (French: La Naissance de Vénus) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French Rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard, produced between 1753 and 1755. [2] It is held by the Musée Grobet-Labadié in Marseille. [1] A sketch for the painting is in the Smith College Museum of Art. [3]
The Birth of Venus, by Sandro Botticelli c. 1485 –1486. Venus, Mars, and Vulcan, by Tintoretto. The Birth of Venus (c. 1485) Sleeping Venus (c. 1501) Venus of Urbino (1538) Venus with a Mirror (c. 1555) Rokeby Venus (1647–1651) Olympia (1863) The Birth of Venus (1863) The Birth of Venus (1879)