Great Paintings OF All Time

The Birth of Venus

The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere [ˈnaʃʃita di ˈvɛːnere]) is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, probably made in the mid...

The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere [ˈnaʃʃita di ˈvɛːnere]) is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, probably made in the mid-1480s. It depicts the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth when she had emerged from the sea fully-grown (called Venus Anadyomene and often depicted in the art). The painting is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. As depictions of subjects from classical mythology on a very large scale, they were virtually unprecedented in Western art since classical antiquity, as was the size and prominence of a nude female figure in the Birth. It used to be thought that they were both commissioned by the same member of the Medici family, but this is now uncertain.

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The Blonde Odalisque

The Blonde Odalisque or Resting Girl (French: Jeune fille allongée, Jeune fille couchée or L'Odalisque blonde) is the title of two paintings by Franço...

The Blonde Odalisque or Resting Girl (French: Jeune fille allongée, Jeune fille couchée or L'Odalisque blonde) is the title of two paintings by François Boucher. The first dates to 1751 and is now in the Wallraf–Richartz Museum in Cologne, whilst the second was produced in 1752 and is now in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. The model may be Marie-Louise O'Murphy, mistress of Louis XV for two years. They belong to the odalisque genre.

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