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art
Title: art
Category: Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 537 | Pages: 2.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
art
For assignment 4 I chose Sandro Botticelli’s painting The Birth of Venus and Fra Angelico’s painting Coronation of the Virgin. In The Birth of Venus, “Botticelli represents Venus, Born of Sea, being sped by Zephir towards land, where an Hour is ready to cover her with a beautiful cloak.” In The Coronation of the Virgin, “the gold background recalls the celestial splendor peculiar of the medieval painting. But the perspective arrangement of shadows and …showed first 75 words of 537 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 537 total…bodies, the movement of the flowers in the air, and the movement of Venus’s hair to express that Venus is moving towards the land. On the other hand, in the Coronation of the Virgin everything and everybody is rather still. There are no moving lines in this painting. Angelico uses the brightness of the light behind the two in the middle to point out that the coronation is taking place in that area.
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