A Study Of Sandro Botticelli’s Venus And Mars
By Tyler Jerrom.
This essay will look at Venus and Mars by Sandro Botticelli, and its relationship to the contemporary context in which it was created. I will aim to describe the reasons behind the sexual nature of this image, which depicts Venus and Mars after having made love, as well as the contextual elements which allowed for sexual imagery and narrative in a period in which sexual acts were typically frowned upon…
Titian’s Assumption Of The Virgin: Piety In Renaissance Italy
By Venice White.
The celebrated Renaissance painter Tiziano Vecelli, known in English as Titian, was the creator of the powerful altarpiece named Assunta, or ‘Assumption of the Virgin’ . From its unveiling in 1518, it continues to reside in the high altar of one of the most prominent cathedrals in the city of Venice; the Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari…
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