4. Map of Italy Liguria Simonetta Vespucci born here Prato Fra Fillippino Lippi lived and worked here Florence Rome Painted Sistine Chapel “ He that exalteth himself shall be humbled, and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.” (cf, St. Luke xiv,11 and xviii,14; St. Matthew xxiii,12). “ All roads lead to Rome” “ Death will find me Alive” Italian Proverbs are the best!
6. Botticelli’s Paintings compared to the average height for man in the United States US Average male height (age 20+) = 5 ft 9.5 in / 176.3 cm* * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_height
8. Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy http://www.googleartproject.com/museums/uffizi
9. Gilding on the “Birth of Venus” because Botticelli was a goldsmith, of course various details throughout are made with gold leaf mixed with an oil-based substance .
10. “ Venus de Medici” Botticelli’s “Venus” Notice any similarities here? “ Capitoline Venus”
18. YouTube - Monty python venus animation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLlJfGy bBcc&feature=fvwrel “ Monty Python’s Flying Circus” 1970s British comedy show that originally aired on BBC Dancing Venus This show is dope!
19. Adobe Illustrator 1 - 10 splash screen and icons Adobe is the new “Microsoft” ... because software bugs are “features” too 4.1 5.5 6.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 10.0 1.1 1.6 3.0
20. Andy Warhol Details of the Renaissance Series (by this exploitative asshole) “ Venus” 1984
21. “ The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” 1988 British adventure comedy film Uma Thurman plays as Venus in this Terry Gilliam production
22. " The Last Temptation of Homer " is the ninth episode of The Simpsons' fifth season Homer Simpson has an infatuation with Mindy , a new worker at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant , and, upon meeting her, imagines her as Venus in Sandro Botticelli's painting. Originally aired on December 9, 1993. If you don’t like The Simpsons, then you’re un-American
Vasari reports a different birth year than everyone else. Youngest of five children. His father, a tanner, allowed him to become an apprentice to a goldsmith. The goldsmith gave him the name Botticelli - meaning “little barrel / small wine cask”. Sandro became apprenticed to Fra Filippo Lippi and began his career painting frescoes for churches and cathedrals.\n\n
Sandro was an artist who flourished towards the beginning of the high Renaissance but demand for his work eventually declined due to his inability to adapt to changing attitudes about art brought on by high renaissance masters such as Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo.\n
Unlike some of the artists of the high renaissance, Botticelli stayed relatively close to his home in Florence most of his life. He only left for about a year to paint the walls of the Sistine Chapel in Rome (1481).\n
Botticelli had his own workshop after Lippi died where he apprenticed Lippi’s son Filippino, and, due to Lippi’s connections, was in high demand by the Medici family. Not long after Lorenzo the Magnificent died, and the Medici were exiled from Florence, His work underwent a significant change in style. Girolamo Savonarola was a tremendous influence and Botticelli actually burned his own pagan works in the infamous “Bonfire of the Vanities”.\n
Most of his works were life-sized.\n
Illustration of a classic greek myth. The painting of Venus symbolizes the importance of finding god through beauty, the ideals of Neo-platonism, and that beauty is a creation of man, thus the painting of Venus who is the perfect woman. The style itself is very classical and the figures cast no shadows. It is clearly a fantasy image.\n
It is Tempera on linen mounted to panel and measures 184.5 cm (6.05 ft) high by 285.5 cm (9.4 ft) wide and was painted between 1484-1486.\n
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probably commissioned by Pierfracesco de medici - lorenzo magnificent’s cousin. After-all, it was seen in his villa by Giorgio Vasari.\n
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It is speculated that these two paintings were made to go together and that the four figures are repeated three times to symbolize the various stages of one’s life.\n
This painting was also found in Pierfrancesco de’ Medici’s villa (Castello) by Giorgio Vasari around 1550.\n
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