Botticelli

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This paper examines the life and paintings of Sandro Botticelli. It portrays the life of the great Italian Renaissance artist who created the masterpiece "Birth of Venus." The paper analyzes this piece of art and provides its critical reviews throughout time. The author illustrates the intellectual environment of the artist's time, including paganism, theology, and the classical world.

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"One of the most important artists to emerge from the early Renaissance and late medieval period in Florence, Italy was Sandro Botticelli. The Renaissance period in Italy and particular in Florence marked an era where for the first time there was a flowering of interest in the pagan, classical era of early Greece and Rome. Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" and "Primavera" paintings emerged quite early from this growing syncretism of medieval and classical interests. They were to become emblematic of a new period of interest in the human form and the human condition, as it might be expressed outside of the narrative constraints of Biblical and iconic art. However, as documented quite poignantly in The Bullfinch Guide to Art History, with the emergence of the High Renaissance style of specific, quite anatomically accurate art at the turn of the 16th century, this artist fell out of fashion. He died in obscurity and was "only returned to his position as one of the best-loved quattrocento painters through the interest of Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites." (West The Bullfinch Guide to Art History)"

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