If the Birth of Venus took place in my yarn stash 🧶 It’s a..
Added 2024-09-16 11:00:39 +0000 UTCIf the Birth of Venus took place in my yarn stash 🧶
It’s a silly imitation of the real painting, which was painted in the late 1400s by an Italian painter who was commissioned by a member of the Medici family. With this piece of art being one of the most recognizable and studied pieces from art history there’s a lot I could cover: from the Medici family, to why Venus is depicted as emerging from the sea as a full-grown woman, to how its history eluded historians until the 1970s.
Instead I’ll leave you with the most on-brand fact about the photo: the seashells Venus is standing on represent the female vulva (no joke!).
