Renaissance Art

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This paper provides a study of 3 paintings: Sandro Bottecelli's "The Birth of Venus," Jan Van Eyck's "Arnolfini Wedding," and El Greco's "The Spoliation, Christ Stripped of His Garments." It examines how the proper and appropriate relationship of humanity to God and the spiritual realm was one of the most vexing questions of the Renaissance era and how these paintings reflect these ideas.

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"The style of Bottecelli's "Birth of Venus" is essentially idealistic regarding the human form showing a Venus rising from the half-shell, with a gauzy web of hair around her. (Webart, 2004) Van Eyck shows a contrasting ordinary couple, filled with the physical accoutrements of marriage around them. Some have seen Van Eyck's work as a parody of middle class aspirations, but it can also be seen as a tribute to the couple, much as "Venus" is a tribute to the personal fascination of the Medici Family with Neo Platonism as a philosophy in art."

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