Birth of Venus

- Botticelli was good at showing his light source.
- Putting a lot of saints and angels in his portraits.
- He worked in Florence, often for the Medici, then was called to Roman in 1481 by Pope Sixtus IV to help decorate the new sistine chapel along with other artists
-Botticelli returned to Florence that same year and entered a new phase of his career
-For the Medici, Botticelli produced secular paintings of mythological subjects inspired by ancient works and by contemporary Neoplatonic thought.
- Venus was the classical equivalent of the virgin mary
-Primavera was painted at the time of the wedding of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici and Semiramide d'Appiano in 1482.
-Several years later, some of the myth creatures appeared in Botticelli's Birth of Venus
-Botticelli's classical goddess of love and beauty, born of sea foam, averts her eyes from our gaze as she floats ashore on a scallop shell, gracefully aranging her hands and hair to hide-but actually drawing attention to her sexuality instead.
-Botticelli was later impacted by a spiritual crisis
-Many Florentines reacted with orgies of self-recrimination, and processions of weeping penitents wound through the streets