Botticelli vs. Michelangelo
The Early Renaissance or the Florentine Renaissance all started when the Italian artists and intellectual minds felt an urge to return to their Classical roots. Having felt that they had broken radically with the past they began to speak of a rebirth of civilization. They rejected the more recent, medieval past, which constituted the Gothic era. Works by classical authors, lost to the West for centuries, were rediscovered, and with them, a new humanistic outlook that placed man and human achievement at the center of all things.In this time period Florentine artists, flourished largely because of the patronage of wealthy citizens and the church. Sandro Botticelli, the principal painter of the Medici family, created a prime example of Florentine Renaissance style artwork, which he titled The Birth of Venus. The Renaissance style is depicted in his classical subject matter, figures from antiquity, such as the goddess Venus and the three Graces. It is also in the effect of motion that he achieves, where he carefully places his figures in nearly balanced groupings, yet never loses a feeling of that motion and lightness. The Birth of Venus seems to be a combination of mythological and Christian ideas. On the surface, the paint
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