Saturday 23 March 2013

Sandro Bottcelli


Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi also known as Sandro Botticelli, was a painter during the renaissance, famously known for his work based on Christianity but also famously depicted the painting of the birth of Aphrodite (Venus), the goddess of love, beauty and pleasure.



The image shows the birth of Venus from the ocean, floating ashore after being born of the ocean and Uranus, the story depicts that Cronus castrated Uranus and threw his genitals into the ocean. the name Aphrodite means foam-arisen. 



Here is another adaptation of the birth of Venus by Granger
this is an image of Cronus severing Uranus' genitals.

This image shows Aphrodite and Ares.





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