History Art / TheBirthOfVenus

* ''[[Art/TheBirthOfVenusBotticelli The Birth of Venus]]'' by Sandro Botticelli

* ''[[Art/TheBirthOfVenusCabanel The Birth of Venus]]'' by Alexandre Cabanel

* ''[[Art/TheBirthOfVenusBouguereau The Birth of Venus]]'' by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

* ''[[Art/TheBirthOfVenusBouguereau The Birth of Venus]]'' by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

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''The Birth of Venus'' is a Tempera painting created by the Early [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance Italian Renaissance]] painter Sandro Botticelli finished in 1486. It depicts the goddess [[LoveGoddess Venus]] of Myth/ClassicalMythology arriving at the shore after her birth, when she had emerged from the sea fully-grown (called ''Venus Anadyomene'' and often depicted in art).

The painting is currently on display in the Uffizi Gallery in UsefulNotes/{{Florence}}, UsefulNotes/{{Italy}}.

For ArtImitatesArt references and parodies, see TheBurlesqueOfVenus.

Not to be confused with the Art/VenusDeMilo.

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!!''The Birth of Venus'' provides examples of:

* AdaptationalModesty: The depiction of Venus was [[ArtImitatesArt based on the]] ''Capitoline Venus'', a type of statue of Venus where the naked goddess is desperately trying to cover her naked form, covering her breasts with her right hand, and her groin with her left hand.
* ArtMajorBiology: Necks don't really bend that way last I checked, at least not naturally.
* BlowYouAway: Zephyrus, God of the West Wind, blowing the newborn Venus to land.
* BornAsAnAdult: As was the case in mythology, Venus is born from the ocean, in this case from the shell of a clam.
* ContrappostoPose: A fairly low-key instance, but sometimes quoted as one of the classic Renaissance examples.
* LoveGoddess: Venus
* TheMuse: Not the goddess kind, but the metaphorical kind. No one is certain who the model who possed as Venus was, but most take a guess that she was Simonetta Vespucci, wife of Marco Vespucci, a locally famous beauty and one of Botticelli's recurring models.
* UrExample: [[ArtImitatesArt Popularity breeds imitations]], hence why TheBurlesqueOfVenus is a trope.
* WingedHumanoid: As depicted with Zephyrus and Chloris, the former being an AnthropomorphicPersonification of the wind, and flying.
* TheXOfY: The painting depicts Venus being BornAsAnAdult from the ocean, in this case from the shell of a clam.

* WingedHumanoid: As depicted with Zephyrus and Chloris.

Not to be confused with the Venus de Milo.