Birth of Venus

This greatest creation of the artist for more than three hundred years was in deep oblivion in the quiet Villa Castello in the vicinity of Florence. The picture was noticed only in the middle of the last century, when the Pre-Raphaelite painters Milles and Rossetti rediscovered Botticelli as one of the rarest talents of Italy in the 15th century.
The Birth of Venus was written for Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco Medici, cousin of Lorenzo the Magnificent and Botticelli's most important patron.
The picture illustrates the myth of the birth of Venus (Greek Aphrodite). A naked goddess floats to the shore in an open shell, driven by the wind. On the left side of the picture, Zephyr (west wind), in the arms of his wife Chlorida (Roman Flora), blows on the shell, creating a wind filled with flowers. On the shore, the goddess is met by one of the graces.

“Near the island of Kythera was born Aphrodite, the daughter of Uranus, from the snow-white foam of the sea waves. A light, caressing breeze brought her to the island of Cyprus. There, young Ora were surrounded by the goddess of love who emerged from the sea waves. They clothed her in golden-weaved clothes and crowned her with a wreath of fragrant flowers. Wherever Aphrodite did not step, flowers flourished there. The whole air was full of fragrance. "

Sandro Botticelli lived and worked more than five centuries ago in beautiful Florence, which in ancient times was called "The Flower of Tuscany" and which many considered the most perfect of all cities in Italy, and where the artist spent almost all his life.
Sandro Botticelli, glorified and glorified Simonetta Vespucci - a woman famous for her beauty and love. She was the beloved of another man - Giuliano Medici. She is Beauty itself, the queen of the omnipotent art.

And for Giuliano Medici, when he participated in a knightly tournament, Botticelli created a knightly banner. The banner depicts Pallas Athena, but in Florence everyone knew perfectly well that the beauty in a white dress was Simonetta, Giuliano's beloved. The love of Giuliano and Simonetta became the event of the century for the Florentines, although it did not last long and ended sadly.

Life destroys beauty, rock pursues love. Simonetta dies of consumption, and two years later, on the same day in April, when the beautiful Simonetta was buried, mourned by all of Florence, Giuliano was stabbed to death in the cathedral with a hired assassin's knife.
The death of Simonetta became a deep personal grief for the artist. In an effort to drown out suffering, the artist captured Simonetta Vespucci in his paintings.


Seem to be,-
Absolutely
She
Completed,
Revolted
From the foam
Or sea
Bottom ...
In what
Impeccable
Tele
Is absent
Vice...
"Venus"
Botticelli,
Whose meaning
So high! ...