SUMARY ON THE BOOK THE BIRTH OF VENUS BY SANDRO BOTTICELLI (Essay Sample)

SUMARY ON THE BOOK THE BIRTH OF VENUS BY SANDRO BOTTICELLI
The Birth of Venus belongs to the group of mythological pictures painted by Sandro Botticelli in the after his return from Rome after he had three paintings in the Sistine Chapel for Pope Sixtus IV. The work painted with tempera on canvas shows the female nude figure of the goddess Venus standing on dry land having come out of the sea. Lorenzo commissioned it the Magnificent of the Medici Family whose interest was in classical mythology CITATION san10 \l 1033 (botticelli).
According to the poet Hesiod Venus was conceived when Chronus castrated his father the God Uranus whose organs fertilized the sea. But Botticelli received additional inspiration from the Florentine protege of Lorenzo Medici who wrote about this scene in his epic poem Stanze per la Giostra. He described Venus as being driven towards the shore on a shell by Zephyrus god of the wind while the Horae of the seasons stood on the shore in white flowing garments.