Birth of Venus, by Sandro Botticelli
Ascension of Wisdom: Vigilance of Discernment and the Application of Truth
Greetings Beloved Kin,
Botticelli’s painting of Venus appears to be the celebration of Feminine Beauty. There’s much more to the story of the surrounding Time and Place. It was painted at the beginning of the Renaissance, a period of European cultural, artistic, political and scientific “rebirth” after the Middle Ages, when Humans turned away from the idea of Beauty as a Source of Divine Inspiration.
