Product Description
Titled 'La Femme,' the Neoclassical Pop Art artwork inspired by Sandro
Botticelli's landmark painting, "The Birth of Venus," created c. 1485, currently located at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.
Among Florentine Painters, few rank higher than Sandro Botticelli, 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.
To the myth, Botticelli adds the mythological Greek gods of the winds, who blow Venus to the shore.
Many connect Venus with the model Simonetta Vespucci, Florence's emblem of feminine beauty.
From Venus' hairstyle to her divine glam, Botticelli's eye for feminine beauty, style and appeal has inspired Pop Culture artists including Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Lady Gaga and Beyonce.
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.
A daring act for its time, the painting commissioned by the Medici Family, Botticelli's major patron, is said to have loomed over the family marital bed; it still finishes a bedroom as perfect wall art, and Venus blesses any space with love.
A collectible original artwork, made to be lived with. It was created as an original contemporary painting by the Neoclassical Pop Art studio. A collectible statement piece where the Old Masters meet pop culture, made for true art lovers.
- 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
