Botticelli, Birth of Venus발음듣기
Botticelli, Birth of Venus
[MUSIC PLAYING] [DR. STEPHEN ZUCKER] We're in the Uffizi, and we're looking at the Birth of Venus, by Botticelli.발음듣기
[DR. STEPHEN ZUCKER] So she stands, radically naked, in a Renaissance painting, not in a Christian context here.발음듣기
[DR. BETH HARRIS] Until, really, this point in the Renaissance, the only time you would see a nude was Eve. But here.발음듣기
[DR. STEPHEN ZUCKER] Which was, actually, a copy of an even earlier ancient Greek sculpture, which is known, sometimes, as the modest Venus.발음듣기
We think that this painting might have actually been for one of the Medici court, perhaps even for a cousin of Lorenzo de Medici.발음듣기
She's born of the sea and seems to be being pushed in by the winds, the zephyrs that are personified on the left.발음듣기
And when she gets to the shore, she'll be received by an attendant that's ready to wrap her nude body.발음듣기
You know, there's this extraordinary curve to the body that, I think, suggests that she's got a very flexible, kind of, skeletal structure.발음듣기
[DR. BETH HARRIS] And even the zephyrs, who are those winds that blow her to shore, are intertwined in impossible ways.발음듣기
You know, we expect to see features that have weight, with bodies that make sense, existing in a realistic space.발음듣기
[DR. STEPHEN ZUCKER] Some art historians have suggested that Botticelli is looking back to ancient Greek painting.발음듣기
And the only painting, really, that Botticelli would have had available to him, from the classical Greek tradition, would have been vase painting, where figures are often isolated against a ground.발음듣기
All the figures - and this is very much a Botticelli characteristic - are pushed forward and...발음듣기
And because of the patterning, because of the quality of the linear, it sort of defies space.발음듣기
This is a painting, presumably - and we're just guessing, we don't know - that is really about beauty, perhaps in a Neo-platonic sense, both beauty as physical, as sensual, as erotic, that leads one to its notion of divine beauty.발음듣기
[DR. STEPHEN ZUCKER] Botticelli is creating a kind of beauty that is a result of, of course, the narrative.발음듣기
We can see that, especially, in the traces of gold that he's placed in her hair, in the trees to the right.발음듣기
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