Talks | The Birth of Venus – Famous Paintings and their Hidden Histories with Áine Andrews at Triskel Arts Centre
Tobin Street, Cork City, Cork, Cork, T12WYYO
Tel: 021 427 2022
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Event Details
In each Famous Paintings and their Hidden Histories lecture, Artist and art teacher Áine Andrews will focus on a particular painting to recount its history.
Week 4: The Birth of Venus, Botticelli, 1485.
It depicts the goddess of love and beauty arriving on the island of Cyprus, born of the sea spray and blown there by the winds on a giant scallop shell, as pure and as perfect as a pearl.
Simonetta Vespucci, the face of Venus with her fluttering gold red hair, who was the ‘most beautiful woman in Florence’ and a legend in her lifetime.
The details of Simonetta’s life have passed into history with her death at 22 years of age. Her beauty, however, remains with us because it so haunted the artist who so delicately portrayed her face in several other paintings.