Most scholars would agree that there is a distinctive Renaissance style in music, literature, and the arts. The Renaissance period is known for its confident and cohesive characteristics that give it the feeling of newness and superiority (Cole, 1994, 29). The technique of realism, where people are portrayed realistically, is a renaissance revelation that can be seen in many Renaissance artists" work. Botticelli's work of art possesses the characteristics of the realism, but other characteristics as well. Botticelli had to power to materialize the "beautiful visions" and this he did in a number of works for the Medici villas, among them the famous Birth of Venus inspired by a poem by Politian on that theme (Art through., 1970, 442-3).
Sandro Botticelli was an Italian painter and draftsman. "He is considered one of the most esteemed painters in Italy" (Schutz, 1992, 35). Throughout his lifetime, Botticelli remained little known. The body of his work was not fully appreciated until centuries after his death. His paintings were discovered late in the 19th century by a group of artists in England known as the Pre-Raphaelites. Botticelli spent the majority of his life in Florence, but did make a visit to Rome, where he painted wall frescoes in the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican (World Art, 584).
"Sandro Botticelli had his own style that was influenced by the times. His technique was that of a new, sharply contoured, slender form and rippling sinuous line" (Schutz, 1992, 46). Botticelli had an amazingly sophisticated understanding of perspective, anatomy, and the humanistic debate. He created many pieces that express religion. His religious paintings manifest his acceptance of other religions by converging all truths into one (Beckett, 1994, 37). Botticelli is of his generation in his enthusiasm for themes "from classical mythology and along with it in his suiting the ancient pagan materials to a form that repaired by the early renaissance, a form realistic yet still modified by something of the medieval past" (Art through.
