Sandro Botticelli, Detail of Venus, c. 1490, Oil on canvas, Galleria Sabauda, Photo via Wikimedia Commons
If you are in Boston anytime before July 9th, make the time to see the exhibition, “Botticelli and the Search for the Divine” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Sandro Botticelli is today, as he was during his lifetime, one of the best-known artists from the Renaissance in Florence. He is known for his linear style of painting in which he accentuated the elegant contours of forms. He is also celebrated for being one of the first Renaissance masters to depict Classical subjects, as he did in his painting of Venus (c. 1490), which is on display in the exhibition in the United States for the very first time. This is a unique opportunity to view authentic and important Italian Renaissance art.
Click here to learn a few surprising things about Botticelli.
