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Autor:
Sandro Botticelli (Firenze 1445 - 1510) Title: Dating:
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Iconographic
subject:
The
iconographic subject is the allegory of Venere's birth, usually represented
as a Goddess emerging from the sea foam. In the version proposed by
the Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli, Venere acquires symbolic meanings
tied to the classical myth, but also to the Christian worship. Here
Venere represents not only the union of the two natures, heavenly and
earthly, of deity, but also the ideal renaissance of classicality and
of the soul, purified because of the baptism. Venere being born from
the foam, sustained by the shell and pushed by Zefiro's fertilizer wind,
divinity whom the nymph Clori is embraced to, lands ashore where the
nymph Ora is waiting for her, in the attitude of offering her the cloak
which is going to protect her.
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