Star Lot: An enormous magnificent oil on canvas painting aft...

Hammer

€490

Star Lot: An enormous magnificent oil on canvas painting after an original oil on painting tilted 'The Birth of Venus' by Sandro Botticelli (Firenze 1445 – 1510). Rendered in delicate graceful brushstrokes portraying a sense of movement and elegance. Housed in a wooden frame.
MM: 196 x 152 cm including frame.
This is huge would need van to collect this.

Known as the “Birth of Venus”, the composition actually shows the goddess of love and beauty arriving on land, on the island of Cyprus, born of the sea spray and blown there by the winds, Zephyr and, perhaps, Aura. The goddess is standing on a giant scallop shell, as pure and as perfect as a pearl. She is met by a young woman, who is sometimes identified as one of the Graces or as the Hora of spring, and who holds out a cloak covered in flowers. Even the roses, blown in by the wind are a reminder of spring. The subject of the painting, which celebrates Venus as symbol of love and beauty, was perhaps suggested by the poet Agnolo Poliziano.