What is the name of the painting with the nude woman in the clam?

[brainshrub]

It was a Renaissance painting. I can't remember it.

[auntAgonist]

1. Botticelli's Birth of Venus? n/m

[brainshrub]

3. Thanks.

That was it.

[hyphenate]

2. I always thought it was entitled

Venus on the Halfshell. :shrug:

Is this the one?

[brainshrub]

6. All three of you were right.

Thanks.

:yourock:

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. Monty Python used that in an animation

in one of the shows. Venus was standing there in her shell, and a hand came out and tweaked her nipple like a radio knob. The music started and she began to dance like a marionette.

:rofl:

[Aristus]

14. Dialogue, from left to right:

*wolf-whistle* Whew! Hot stuff, girlfriend!

My she looks yummy, except for the tiny ta-tas.

Um...like..I think I'll use my hair to cover up my, you know...hair!

Put some clothes on, you saucy bitch!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. This one?

Botticelli's "Birth of Venus."

[brainshrub]

5. Yup.

Thanks

[murielm99]

16. I have an art book with that painting in it.

When my son was 7 or 8, he used to take the book out and stare at that picture.

[JVS]

7. Live Nudes on the half-shell!

[Book Lover]

9. It's a scallop, not clam, shell (nm)

[Hissyspit]

10. Yes, scallop shell. Highly foreshortened.

[Hissyspit]

11. Botticelli painted it for the Medici.

Note the strong anatomy on the figure, clearly inspired by ancient Greek statues, as well as the extreme depth and the extreme foreshortening on the scallop shell.

These are all systems of naturalism designed to heighten the naturalistic/illusionistic nature of the image, AND YET, it still comes across as a strongly linear design and seems like a collage of images cut from a magazine, flat and placed one over another. This is because in the late 1400s, having discovered many of the rules and techniques of naturalism, these Renaissance artists are having a tough time making them all work together and differentiating them from earlier Medieval rules of design.

Botticelli is having a hard time harmonizing the illusion of space here and the turh of flat linear design and composition, because truly in any two-dimensional work, they are both there. The work has both implied infinite space and is really just flat. The seeming solutions to these conflicts in painting are part of what marks the High Renaissance.

[hyphenate]

17. I gather art history was a favorite subject

of yours? :)

[Hissyspit]

21. Art history would be a paycheck.

:)

[radwriter0555]

12. Botticelli's Venus.. It's in Florence at the Uffizi.......

it's a stunning, stunning piece worthy of great travels and adventures to see her.

[jpgray]

13. That painting reminds me how well Uma was cast in Baron Munchausen

[meegbear]

19. Yes, that was awesome ...

she was both beautiful and sensual in that role.

[RevCheesehead]

15. "Venus on the Half-Shell"

Well, that's what I call it. :)

[Bassic]

18. Homer's Birth of Mindy?

:rofl:

[brainshrub]

20. Thanks for the help. Here is where I used the picture:

www.brainshrub.com/spongebob-metaphors

[sarge43]

22. Alternate title

"Quick honey, put this on. It's a raid."