Aphrodite I shall sing to whose domain belong the battlements of all sea-loved Cyprus where, blown by the moist breath of Zephyros, she was carried over the waves of the resounding sea on soft foam. The gold-filleted Horae happily welcomed her …

Aug 11, 2023 · Out of this sea foam emerged Aphrodite, fully grown and breathtakingly beautiful. The sea foam formed around her as she rose from the waves, and she was carried ashore on a shell, often depicted as a scallop or clam shell. Aphrodite’s arrival was met with awe and wonder by the gods and creatures who witnessed her emergence.

Oct 8, 2021 · We see Botticelli’s Venus emulating the same features as those of the Aphrodite of Knidos (Cnidus) (c. 4 th century BC) by the Greek sculptor Praxiteles of Athens. He was one of the first sculptors to portray the female figure in the nude and was lauded as one of the most innovative sculptors of his time due to this.

May 18, 2017 · You know the image - a nude Venus, head tilted, red hair flowing and, strategically placed, stands inside a giant shell - a shell we repeatedly described as a clam shell.

Sep 16, 2019 · The Birth of Venus was one of Botticelli’s most famous works, depicting the Greek Goddess Aphrodite rising from the foam of the sea on a scallop shell. Venus is the Roman name for the goddess of love, family, marriage, and is also considered the goddess of the sea and protector of sailors.

On the horizontal rectangular canvas, we see Aphrodite (Venus) who is painted in the center with light nude colors and bright red flowing hair rising out of the calm blue-green ocean standing on a white half clam shell. She is looking straight ahead.

Painted by Sandro Botticelli between 1482 and 1485, it has become a landmark of XV century Italian painting, so rich in meaning and allegorical references to antiquity. The theme comes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a very important oeuvre of the Latin literature.