A Venus Comparison: Milos vs. Botticelli

A Venus Comparison: Milos vs. Botticelli

This essay will examine the parallel ideas behind the Venus de Milos and trhe birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli. Venus de Milos is an ancient Greek statue, carved in marble 150 BCE and the Louvre Museum in Paris houses it. It is a depiction of the goddess Aphrodite. Though its features seem classical, it is a late Hellenistic work, created at a time when Greek culture as a whole was in decline. The painting the Birth of Venus is the work of the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli and it dates around 1482 ACE. The idea and ideal of Venus inspire the artists to create masterpieces. One can talk…