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The Birth Of Venus By Sandro Botticelli

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The Birth of Venus is a Renaissance artwork, which depicts the ideology of Neoplatonism. The artist, Sandro Botticelli uses early perspective and the foreground of the artwork so the viewer can focus on the action of the artwork. Botticelli uses realistic skin tone of Venus, but its very light, so the viewer can tell, that Venus just came into the world. This was the ideal woman of the time period so the viewer can feel the femininity, and the sexual appeal coming from Venus. The light goes directly to Venus, so the viewer eyes goes to her, and then to the rest of the artwork. This is to focus on the fact Venus is nude; the feelings it evoke may depend on the audience. Some may feel disgusted, others are attracted, but for me, it is Venus,
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