History Art / TheBirthOfVenusBotticelli

''The Birth of Venus'' (Italian: ''La nascita di Venere'') is a Tempera {{painting|s}} created by UsefulNotes/{{Floren|ce}}tine painter Creator/SandroBotticelli. It was finished in 1486 and counts among the most iconic works of art coming from the [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance Italian Renaissance]].

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). While not the only painting to take the name ''The Birth of Venus'', Botticelli's painting is definitely the most recognizable.

''The Birth of Venus'' (Italian: ''La nascita di Venere'') is a Tempera {{painting}} created by UsefulNotes/{{Floren|ce}}tine painter Creator/SandroBotticelli. It was finished in 1486 and counts among the most iconic works of art coming from the [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance Italian Renaissance]].

''The Birth of Venus'' (Italian: ''La nascita di Venere'') is a Tempera painting created by UsefulNotes/{{Floren|ce}}tine painter Creator/SandroBotticelli. It was finished in 1486 and counts among the most iconic works of art coming from the [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance Italian Renaissance]].

For ArtImitatesArt references and parodies, see TheBurlesqueOfVenus.

Compare ''Art/{{Primavera}}'', Botticelli's other big painting starring Venus. Not to be confused with the Art/VenusDeMilo, the [[Art/TheBirthOfVenusBouguereau William-Adolphe Bouguereau painting]] or the [[Art/TheBirthOfVenusCabanel Alexandre Cabanel painting]].

* SceneryCensor: Although it's technically a nude rendition of Venus, her hands cover her breasts and her long hair is long enough to conveniently cover her genitals.

* WhiteAndGoldIsDivine: Venus has long golden hair, and the only article of clothing she's wearing (a ribbon to tie is back) is white.

* ArtifactTitle: As it turns out, Botticelli never named his painting -- it was art historians from the [=XIXth=] century who did that. And they, well, screwed up. The painting's subject is not Venus' birth per se but the very next thing that happened to her. That is, her being carried to land by minor gods. A more fitting title would be ''Venus Arriving on Land'' or something like that.

* BornAsAnAdult: As was the case in the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology classical myth]] that inspired it, Venus is born from a clam's shell in the ocean having already passed puberty.

* SceneryCensor: Although it's technically a nude rendition of Venus, her hands cover her breasts and her long hair is blowing in the wind to conveniently cover her genitals.

* 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 post-puberty, in this case from the shell of a clam.

* LoveGoddess: Venus, Roman Goddess of Love, is the subject of the painting.

''The Birth of Venus'' (Italian: ''La nascita di Venere'') is a Tempera painting created by UsefulNotes/{{Floren|ce}}tine painter Sandro Botticelli. It was finished in 1486, and counts among the most iconic works of art coming from the [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance Italian Renaissance]].

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). While not the only painting to take the name ''The Birth of Venus'', Botticelli's painting is definitely the most recognizable.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Venus' neck is unnaturally long and bends at an improbable angle.

* RapunzelHair: The goddess's long golden locks fall at least to her knees.

* LoveGoddess: Venus, Roman Goddess of Love.

''The Birth of Venus'' is a Tempera painting created by UsefulNotes/{{Floren|ce}}tine painter Sandro Botticelli. It was finished in 1486, and counts among the most iconic works of art coming from the [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance Italian Renaissance]].

Not to be confused with the Art/VenusDeMilo, the [[Art/TheBirthOfVenusBouguereau William-Adolphe Bouguereau painting]] or the [[Art/TheBirthOfVenusCabanel Alexandre Cabanel painting]].

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

''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). While not the only painting to take the name ''The Birth of Venus'', Botticelli's painting is definitely the most recognizable.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Venus' neck bends in an unnatural angle.

* ArtMajorBiology: Venus' neck bends in an unnatural angle.

''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). While not the only painting to take the name ''The Birth of Venus'', Botticelli's paitning is definitely the most recognizable.

* 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.

* ArtMajorBiology: Necks don't really bend that way, at least not naturally.

* ArtMajorBiology: Necks don't really bend that way last I checked, at least not naturally.

Not to be confused with the Art/VenusDeMilo.

''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).