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Exactly 10 years ago, the first version of the DailyArt application was released. I really can’t believe this; in my wildest dreams, I never thought this little app would grow so fast! We’re proud to deliver the daily-needed artwork to approximately 800,000 people around the world every month in 22 languages. This would never have happened without our brave DailyArt team and our intrepid team of 500 translators and proofreaders. Thank you so much for being with us all these years. We wouldn’t be here without you. ?
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– Zuzanna & DailyArt Team
Ten years ago, it was easy to schedule what to show in an app…I started with the absolute hot stuff back then. I want to go back to those times and show you some of my favorite masterpieces this week. Let’s start with the utterly classic The Birth of Venus.
One of the most famous works in art history depicts the goddess Venus arriving on shore after her birth, when she was born from the sea and fully grown. The composition of the work, with a nude figure in the center, accompanied by winged creatures, echoes the traditional iconography of Christ’s baptism, marking the beginning of his reign over the earth. Again, this scene marks the beginning of Venus’ Eros identity, which was the dominant body of knowledge in late 15th-century Florence, both in the simple sense and in the extended sense of Renaissance Neoplatonism.
On the left, we see Zephyr, the god of wind, blowing at Venus, and the lines radiating from his mouth represent the wind. He took a young female, who was also blowing, but not as forcefully. Both have wings. Art historian Vasari may be correct in identifying her as the goddess Aura, the personification of the breeze. On the right we see a female figure, one of the three chronological goddesses, the minor Greek goddess of the seasons and other parts of time and the attendant of Venus. The floral embellishments on her dress indicate that she is the goddess of spring.
PS If you love The Birth of Venus as much as we do, check out 3 facts you probably didn’t know about this painting!
72.5 × 278.9 cm
Renaissance
Galleria degli Uffizi
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