Joachim Wtewael & Sandro Botticelli

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A comparison of paintings by Joachim Wtewael (also spelled Uitewael and Uytewael) and Sandro Botticelli demonstrates how painters could use the same subject matter for very different purposes and arrive at very different results. The comparison also shows how the two painters' styles were suited to the specific meanings they wished to express. Both artists were Renaissance painters, though their works were painted a little over one hundred years apart, but their shared interest in the themes of ancient mythology is only the beginning of the similarities and differences in the two paintings.

The Renaissance originated in the renewal of "the study of Antiquity" but "that study manifests itself in various styles not all of which" take the classical art of Greece and Rome as their direct models (Greenhalgh 75). Some artists such as the..."

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