Botticelli Venus and the Three Graces
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Botticelli Venus and the Three Graces
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman, Sandro Botticelli. Florence, 1486.
Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman, also known as Giovanna degli Albizzi Receiving a Gift of Flowers from Venus, is a fresco painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli. The painting originally decorated the walls of Villa Lemmi, a country villa near Florence.
Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman shows a young woman, probably Giovanna Tornabuoni, being received by Venus and the three Graces. Giovanna holds open a white cloth, into which Venus is laying roses symbolizing beauty and love.
The painting was discovered at Villa Lemmi in 1873 under a coat of whitewash and removed from the wall and transferred to a canvas support. It is now in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
This fresco represents the culmination of Botticelli's development of philosophical concepts: stripped of all excess ornament, it offers us a world of ideas in which line and color shape the absolute domain of beauty.
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December 16th, 2020
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