Insight into Boticelli
The Early Renaissance: The Birth of Venus In Culture and Values A Survey of the Humanities: Chapter 12 , Lawrence Cunningham introduces the early Renaissance in the city of Florence. In the text, I was able to understand and see how Florence prosper as this new city that's full of aesthetics and how it shaped itself through the blooming of artistic ideas and perspectives. Despite the fact that Europe was recovering from the plague, there was a great, new growth in economics and trades through the rebirth ( Cunningham 266 ). Through this era, artists such as painters, sculptors, etc. begun to emerge and introduces the rebirth through classical works of art. These classical rebirth works of art were created by artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Fra Angelico, Donatello, Paolo Uccello, etc. But one artist from this era caught my attention through his piece of work which is Sandro Botticelli. Botticelli's piece, The Birth of Venus , has become one of the major painti...