An Artist and the Muse #botticelli #arthistory

[TooMuchPam]

Damn... Imagine someone being so obsessed with you they wanna be buried at your feet.

[Random_UserName]

She was Amerigo Vespucci’s cousin.

The guy who the Americas is named after.

[keenkuchipatchi]

For the other nosy people wondering like I was. Eight year age gap. Birth of Venus was finished in 1485-1486. Botticelli was born in 1445, Vespucci was born in 1453. She died in 1476, so she wasn’t alive when he actually finished the painting.

[miklasca]

i want this to be romantic and sweet so bad, but it's kind of giving that one guy who asked to be buried on top of marilyn monroe

[BankruptMonkey]

Being a muse of famous men usually just meant everyone stalked you, you had even less control over your own life than other women, and your wishes aren't taken into account even with your funeral, and history never remembers you for you just for all your stalkers and their fantasies of you

[fatimamustafa]

I wish we knew more about her other than just how beautiful she was

[someone]

I can't hear the word "muse" without physically recoilng now

[nanas_corner]

Welp creeps have existed for centuries. People call it romantic when it’s not.

[tabularasa]

This is so interesting that I had to investigate, but a quick read of the Wiki entry for Simonetta Vespucci calls all of this into question. There seems to be a lot of art-history mythology that developed around this woman many years ago. Lots of disputes around this story (from their relationship, to whether she even passed from tuberculosis)

[ericlikestowander]

Botticelli painted women very beautifully in his works. That’s why he is my favorite renaissance painter

[hm]

Imagine being so obsessed with a person just because of their looks. Wild

[alesswonderland]

Love the first painting. I recreated it for a high school assignment.

[maddiemcnugget]

I really wanna know her perspective because while this sounds nice from an outsider pov… was she harassed? Was she like the Belle of Florence? Did other women hate her ?

[dotdotdot...]

She was basically the teen influencer of her time/town

[FoxGlove]

On the subjects of muses, I highly recommend that you read the poem “Eurydice” by Carol Ann Duffy. It sums up all I would want to add to the conversation.
Her entire poetry anthology called “The World’s Wives” is so great.

[Zhuasolis]

He even continued painting her from memory, like in th first painting. He never forgot her face.

[rimimukherjee]

I feel like she lived the life depicted in Malena.

[jojokeane]

The Birth of Venus is my painting. I once spent 2 hours sitting on a bench in front of the painting. I never believed in running through museums to see everything. That's a recipe to remember nothing. This painting appears in my dreams and comforts me in times of grief.

[keke]

This reminds of a tweet that said we are exposed to, to many beautiful women now that social media exists. Men used to start wars and be “buried at the feet” of the most beautiful girl in their area.

[norayelton]

Wow! She really made a serious impression on him!! 😮 Not to mention, the entire city mourned her death!?! She had to be something VERY SPECIAL! ❤