The Birth Of Venus Sandro Botticelli Analysis

This painting was made by Sandro Botticelli in Florence, Italy during the Renaissance. It is still in Florence and is on display at the Galleria Degli Uffizi.
Alessandro di Mariano Vanni Filipepi Botticelli also known as Sandro Botticelli was born in Florence, Italy on March first (Lightbown). Sandro Botticelli was given his nickname from his elder brother, Antonio. Antonio started training his younger brother to be a goldsmith from a young age . This training came to an abrupt end as Botticelli was made the apprentice of Fra Fillippo Lippi (“Biography”). Fillippo Lippi was an artist from Florence who was known for his frescoes and paintings (Lightbown). Sandro Botticelli got most of his training from Fillippo Lippi, and most of Botticelli’s early works were attributed to Fillippo Lippi (“Biography”). Fillippo
This painting was commissioned by the Medici family in Florence. To this day the painting remains in Florence and is hung in the Uffizi Gallery (“Birth of Venus by Botticelli”). This was made during the time of the Renaissance in which people had become more open minded. Venus was one of the first non-biblical nude figure in Italian art. This was very different than works done by other painters because before this painting, not many nude women were painted in Italy (“Birth of Venus” 2). The Birth of Venus was the first big painting done on a canvas during the Renaissance in Florence. Botticelli made his own pigments which added a lot of brightness and to his paintings. This made his canvas painting have the freshness of frescoes. The proportions of the figures show exaggeration which makes the painting look mythical (“Birth of Venus”) Sandro Botticelli could not keep up with Renaissance artists such as Raphael and Michelangelo. His work, including The Birth of Venus, went in the shadows of other paintings for many centuries and gained popularity again in the nineteenth century (“Birth of Venus”