Name: Jen
Date: 2002-01-31
Comments: I think that this was a truly unique piece of work that culminated a great artists career.
Name: DeeDee Gomez
Date: 2002-03-01
Comments: I think it is truly a wonder. I feel this painting is the greatest of all the paintings in the world.I truly think this is a work of art.
Name: Jane Symons
Date: 2002-03-04
Comments: I am doing a study on this amazing artwork and I feel the story that goes along with this painting is truly great. Botticelli was a great artist.
Name: Jen
Date: 2002-03-21
Comments: sensational piece of art work that shows how unique his work is.
Name: Linda Lou
Date: 2002-03-24
Comments: The birth of Venus is my favorite by Botticelli, Venus is beautiful both innocent and seductive.
Name: tyba hussain
Date: 2002-04-05
Comments: This is a great web site, I looked every where for good info & good prints. The Birth of Venus is a deep and wonderful masterpiece.
Name: Jenny
Date: 2002-04-23
Comments: This contribution from Boticelli is an amazing combination of beauty and divinity. Boticelli used many classical techniques to illustrate a mythological story that expresses the religious theme of rebirth. For this reason, Boticelli was considered, along with Michelangelo, to have paganistic beliefs/views.
Name: michelle
Date: 2002-04-23
Comments: this is a great website and i like the paintings of botticelli. he has a very nice talent. i wish that someday i can own one of these paintings especially the birth of venus
Name: kurt
Date: 2002-05-16
Comments: I think this art work is the best i love the way he does his work.
Name: not telling
Date: 2002-05-27
Comments: I like this painting. He did a great job because it it has a true meaning that people can really understand. *§I hope u like it*§
Name: alicia
Date: 2002-06-11
Comments: i think that the birth of venus is a beautiful picture and it is done by a great and famous artist sandro botticelli
Name: BRANDON O.
Date: 2002-06-14
Comments: I'M VWRY SURPRISED THAT THIS PIECE OF ART IS SO REALISTIC. IT IS ALMOST LIKE A REAL PIC 8- )
Name: altron
Date: 2002-06-21
Comments: yeah its soooo cool i cant belive its not really a photo.
Name: Richard jones
Date: 2002-06-26
Comments: I think it is a masterpiece
Name: SeaElf11ofNumenor
Date: 2002-06-29
Comments: My all-time favorite Boticelli piece. Sandro has done a truly amazing job at capturing the irresistible enchantment of Roman mythology.
Name: Agnieszka
Date: 2002-09-04
Comments: I want to be a part of this piece...
Name: Melissa
Date: 2002-09-12
Comments: This piece is, by far, my most cherished and appreciated depiction of classic mythology. It entails the beauty, mystery and wisdom the men of the Renaissance belived the ancient Greeks and Romans represented. I have numerous replicas of this particular piece. Each time my 2-year-old daughter looks at Venus from this piece she says "There's my Mommy." I can't put into words the joy I feel to be compared to such a thing of beauty, let alone to be compared to THE Goddess of love!
Name: em
Date: 2002-09-12
Comments: wow.
Name: Je-sey Leigh
Date: 2002-10-15
Comments: This is a beautiful piece of art, Beautiful in the sense of all meanings of the wordt.
Name: phyllis stein
Date: 2002-10-04
Comments: it's ok, i guess. but does there HAVE to be so much dang nudity?
Name: eleanor
Date: 2002-10-14
Comments: beauty is all I can say!!!! it´s one of the most beautiful art piece that I´ve ever seen in all my poor life!
Name: Mark Viviezca
Date: 2002-10-07
Comments: This piece just gives me pure joy...everytime i gaze upon this wonderful work of art, i always find small details which i've never seen before...he depicts human form a bit different from reality...the faces may be a bit long and sad...and that makes it more enticing to look at...
Name: Darshini
Date: 2002-11-04
Comments: mille Grazie Boticelli
it is my soul inside in this picture. Bring me always inspiration. Fantastic. No words existing wenn you see this picture.
Name: Pandora
Date: 2002-12-02
Comments: My Marius, it is beautiful....
Name: Efi
Date: 2002-11-11
Comments: Absolutely wonderful!!Botticelli is trully a great artist.I am astonished by the way he paints.It looks so real and natural. The colours are vivid and realistic.Botticelli's "Venus" is exactly the way i pictured her in my mind. This painting is a masterpiece.
Name: Marco
Date: 2003-01-03
Comments: This is my favorite of Botticelli's works, as is everyones' I suppose.
Name: prof. Hanford
Date: 2003-01-11
Comments: There exists a prehispanic Mexican leyend called EPYOLOHTZIN that narrates the birth or awakening of the Princess of the Sea when a giant shell opens up to uncover the beautiful, white damsel, sleeping inside. One can't help but wonder if Botticelli heard of this leyend to give him the idea to paint the Birth of Venus. However, the dates do not correlate. Cortés reaches México in 1519 and he is not in power until 1522 twelve years after Botticelli's death. In any case, what a coincidence!! Unless this leyend was brought to Europe by the Vikings.... or viceversa.... or it is so old it dates back to the time before the great immigration of people to America from Asia 14,000 years ago.
Name: Unknown
Date: 2003-01-15
Comments: its amazing
Name: Monique
Date: 2003-02-02
Comments: That is beautiful artwork!!! The Birth of Venus is one of my favorite paintings!!
Name: Marius
Date: 2003-02-04
Comments: My Pandora...YOU are beautiful.
Name: Ken
Date: 2003-03-06
Comments: It is (in my opinion) the best painting in the world, does anyone know what Boticelli believed in?
Name: Kat
Date: 2003-02-17
Comments: This painting shows the importance of the goddess of love during the Renaissance. Venus is beautifully nude, because the humanist views were so important back then and the human body was being glorified by people. Zephyr and his girl are wonderful in the way that they embrace each other, blowing Venus to shore. One of the three Graces is waiting for Venus with a pink cloth, which will cover her up in the mortal world. This picture is clear, precise, beautiful!
Name: jj
Date: 2003-03-10
Comments: i would like to know the meaning of the shell and the third eye
Name: Dr.W.
Date: 2003-03-17
Comments: Sheez, this isn't a very good scan! I was just in Florence and saw the real thing, and There's so much that isn't visible in this small digital version; here's a better one:
http://www.loudounsymphony.org/image/birth-of-venus-lg.jpg
Name: A. Belli
Date: 2003-04-07
Comments: Hi, I am related to Sandro Botticelli on my grandmother's (Nana Botticelli's) side. All my life I've been brought up with a sentimental and intinate attachment to this "bellissimo" artist. If I catch a strand of hair or just a face of a Botticelli painting in the corner of my eye, I know immediately that it's him... even new ones I had never seen before! I'm doing a paper on him now at Oxford, and I find it impossible to capture the essence of Sandro Botticelli in words. The art speaks for itself. Just to clarify, he was not a pagan spiritually, but a staunch Christian, nominally at least. He followed the great Florentine church reforemer Savanarola, and even destroyed some of his own paintings that were not "kosher." Anyway... keep up the adoration of Sandro, there's a lot more than Venus. Ciao!
Name: dunno
Date: 2003-05-10
Comments: cool. I go to Spalding High School and am doing some work on Botticelli so I thought I mite put a little comment in- I am not taking art for my GCSE, but when I see a painting like this I regret not doing so.
Name: Unknown
Date: 2003-05-18
Comments: The word beauty is not enough to describe the culmination of life in this work. Botticelli is the greatest genius among the throng of artists in history. Not anywhere in our own lives do we find such a great representation of melancholy, beauty, sorrow and happiness. Yes, I adore this work of art. In our world where artists no longer exist and all art is from long ago, it is comforting to gaze at this true work. Botticelli has more paintings other than this one, too.
Name: Joan Lansberry
Date: 2003-06-20
Comments: I always think of this piece as 'Venus On The Half Shell', and it is truly marvelous, one of the best.
It's a shame Botticelli was led by guilt to destroy some of his paintings. Perhaps there were finer delicacies yet, that we will never see,
thanks to the rotten Savanrola.
Anyway,
Loving all beautiful things,
Joan
http://www.aztriad.com/joanalll.html
Out On A Limb
Name: Nazgul
Date: 2003-06-20
Comments: jeje the mayority of the comments here is the same that i though but i love the pagan art and the birth of venus is one of my favorites ones and boticelli one of my favorites painter of renaissance, is fabulous the atmosphere of the paint and near floating figures in the air with faces in serenity and the venus is just a true goddess
Name: Rayann Alexander
Date: 2003-07-21
Comments: As a true art lover, I am a painter/decorator and I must say this is one of my favorite pieces of art of all time. I love it so much I am getting a tatoo of it on my lower back. To me it is the epitemy of beauty.
Name: Gordon Fulthorpe
Date: 2003-09-24
Comments: Dear Phyllis ( Stein ) Oct 2002
Actually Botticelli painted Venus with jeans on a year earlier , they were Levis , and the Wrangler people objected to free advertising . So Sandro re-tooled the painting ( if you will excuse the expression ) and painted this version . I agree with you , there is nothing worse than seeing a semi naked female , but then again I also have trouser legs on my piano legs ............Gordon Fulthorpe
Name: lacey
Date: 2003-10-16
Comments: I belive that this is a beautiful pitcure.To me I think that this pitcure is better than the rest of his pitcures.Every one like his other pitcures but this one is my favorite because it is so pretty.It repersents something but I can't really explain it.
Name: Tom D.
Date: 2003-10-28
Comments: Sandro Botticelli's work, "The Birth of Venus" is truly a great painting. I feel it is his best painting...even over "La Primavera".
Name: Ali Awan
Date: 2003-12-04
Comments: This painting represents what sandro was all about. He carefully crafts and portrays his own image of venus being born. The use of color and proportion is fantastic. There could have been more work on the background, but overall it was good.
Name: Gem
Date: 2004-01-12
Comments: Exceptionally beautiful. Definatly his best work ever. People used to believe it was heratic to paint such a thing!
Name: Jen
Date: 2004-03-17
Comments: I am doing research on a artist of my chice and As soon as I saw The Birth of Venus by Botticelli I knew I was going to do him it is a fantastic peace of work with great detail an graceflness to the art work.I could look at it for ages.
