Botticelli and the Return to Mythology
Six paintings. One concept
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The Quattrocento (15th century). The Florence of the Medici.
The Renaissance, the rebirth of classical culture —that of ancient Greece and Rome— was becoming important. And just as God and the Church ceased to be at the center of everything, and the human being took center stage, art was no longer exclusively Christian religious art and the themes of Greco-Roman mythology were reborn.
We see this well reflected in the work of Botticelli, the most representative painter of the Quattrocento: although there was Christian art during his whole life, his most representative works are those that refer to mythological themes.
We can also find paintings where religious and pagan themes are mixed, faith with philosophical content (Botticelli was an interpreter of Neoplatonism: the recovery of Plato's philosophy).
An example of this fusion, of this mixture, is The Calumny of Apelles, an allegory (work loaded with symbolic content) where characters from Christianity are mixed with Greco-Roman characters.
Recommended links:
Timeline: The Four Greatest Painters of the Italian Renaissance.
Stories Behind Works of Art: The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli.
The Madonnas of Botticelli and the Differences with those of Raphael.
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