Product Description
Titled 'La Femme,' the Neoclassical Pop Art artwork takes its cue from Sandro Botticelli's landmark painting "The Birth of Venus," created c. 1485 and now currently located at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.
A towering figure among Florentine Painters, Sandro Botticelli lived from 1445-1510. Regarded as a milestone, The Birth of Venus may be the most appreciated Italian show-stopper of the 15th century Italian Renaissance, and it defines the era's spirit.
The scene draws on the Greek myth of Kronos and Uranus. In return, Venus, the Goddess of Love and beauty, rises as a fully formed mature woman from the foam of a cresting wave and is carried on a shell drifting to shore in Cyprus.
Botticelli enriches the myth further, with the mythological Greek gods of the winds blowing Venus toward the shore.
The features of Venus are tied to the model Simonetta Vespucci, held up all through Florence as the ideal of feminine beauty.
Generations of Pop Culture artists, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Lady Gaga and Beyonce among them, have drawn on Botticelli's feminine beauty, style, appeal and divine glam, down to Venus' hairstyle.
For Botticelli, Venus is an icon of love and a wellspring of spiritual development and inner beauty, an idea drawn from Plato's philosophy: contemplating an object of beauty helps the mind settle into a meditative state of harmony and love.
Said to have hung over the Medici Family marital bed, the commission from Botticelli's major patron was a daring act for its time; today it is still perfect wall art for the bedroom, while Venus carries her blessings of love to any space.
This is a collectible original artwork. Created by the Neoclassical Pop Art studio, it is an original contemporary painting. For true art lovers: a collectible statement piece in which the old masters meet pop culture.
- Creator : Neoclassical Pop Art
- Year of Creation : 2018
- Dimensions : 24"x 36"
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Movement & Style : Neoclassical Pop Art
- Hand-painted in oil on stretched canvas
