botticelli: lyrical, elegant linearity

Sandro BotticelliAlessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi1445 -1510 (Florence)•La Primavera (Spring), 1481-1482, tempera on panel, 2.3 x 3.14m (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)•The Birth of Venus, c. 1483-85, tempera on panel, 1.7 x 2.8m (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)

Self-portrait? Detail of the Adoration of the Magi, c. 1475–1476, Tempera on panel (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)

Sandro Botticelli, La Primavera (Spring), 1481-1482, tempera on panel, 2.3 x 3.14m (Uffizi, Florence)

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1. The Three Graces: (Beauty)2. The Three Graces: (Chastity)3. The Three Graces: (Love)4. Venus: (provokes desire through Cupid’s arrows) 5. Flora6. Chloris7. Zephyrus: (note the colour, representing love as lust/violence)8. Mercury: (the god of war, representing love as faith/reason)9. Cupid

Sandro Botticelli, La Nascita di Venere (The Birth of Venus), tempera on panel, c. 1483-85 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)

http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/botticelli-primavera.html

http://youtu.be/qwZn852brII

Primavera/Spring: Listen and think of a question for the classCommissioned for the springtime wedding, May 1482, of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco Medici, cousin of Lorenzo the Magnificent).Things to think about: which side is the painting read from? What is the message for newlyweds?

http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/Botticelli.html

http://youtu.be/tdp22elrY7s

La Nascita di Venere/Birth of Venus: Listen and think of a question for the class. Also commissioned by the Medici. Based on a poem by Angelo Poliziano, a leading contemporary humanist.Notice the lyrical* linearity and elegance. (No interest in atmospheric perspective.)

*expressing deep feelings