The Birth of Venus

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The Birth of Venus
c. 1485-86 by Sandro Botticelli, is Tempera on canvas, 172.5 x 278.5 cm.

On the Right:
Either one of the 3 Graces The three Graces, Goddess's of Culture. Or one of the Nymphs, the spirits of natural things such as trees and bodies of water.

In the Middle:
The beautiful and loving Venus, Goddess of Love and Beauty.
On the Left:
Zephyr, the warm breeze who gentle breath blows the giant gold scallop shell onto the shore. She lands at Paphos in Cyprus.
Venus was born when the Titan Cronus castrated his father, the god Uranus--the severed genitals falling into the sea and fertilizing it. Venus' birth was out of the waves and semen of Uranus.

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