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This beautiful White Lip Shell pendant hangs on a Gauze Voile Necklace Cord and is hand painted as a fragment of a famous painting by Sandro Botticelli Venus and Mars by Russian Artist N. Zemina. These items are creations of a very skilled and passionate artist.

Size of the pendant is 6 cm ( 2 3/8 inches) diameter, total length of the necklace is around 43 cm or 17 inches.

Botticelli's, Venus and Mars.
Botticelli’s Venus and Mars was painted sometime after Primavera, probably around 1483. It takes Venus, the Goddess of Love, and Mars, the God of War, as the primary figures in an unashamedly clear message that love will triumph over warlike desire. The theme is that sexual prowess can overcome the physical strength of the warrior.
Venus and Mars are lying facing each other in a garden, they are accompanied by four playful satyrs who mischievously disturb the tranquillity within the sacred grotto of myrtle trees. The satyrs are described as lustful figures an emotion which they are attempting to rekindle in the sleeping God. Mars is depicted naked and fixed in the deepest of sleeps, even the sound of a satyr’s bellowing seashell horn cannot wake him.
In contrast Venus is clothed, half-siting she gazes at the sleeping God of War satisfied that she has overcome his lustfulness. Her flowing white, gold trimmed gown is fastened with a pearl encrusted brooch symbolising her chastity. However the sexual implications surrounding the iconography of the painting points to a scene depicting the immediate aftermath of the couple’s lovemaking. Examples are the lance and the seashell which would appear to suggest sexual symbolism. The painting does portray an aura of carnal sensuality suggesting that it was intended for a bed chamber.

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (c. 1445 – May 17, 1510), known as Sandro Botticelli was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He belonged to the Florentine School under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, a movement that Giorgio Vasari would characterize less than a hundred years later in his Vita of Botticelli as a "golden age". Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century; since then, his work has been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting.
As well as the small number of mythological subjects which are his best known works today, he painted a wide range of religious subjects and also some portraits. He and his workshop were especially known for their Madonna and Childs, many in the round tondo shape. Botticelli's best-known works are The Birth of Venus and Primavera, both in the Uffizi in Florence. He lived all his life in the same neighbourhood of Florence, with probably his only significant time elsewhere the months he spent painting in Pisa in 1474 and the Sistine Chapel in Rome in 1481–82.
Only one of his paintings is dated, though others can be dated from other records with varying degrees of certainty, and the development of his style traced with confidence. He was an independent master for all the 1470s, growing in mastery and reputation, and the 1480s were his most successful decade, when all his large mythological paintings were done, and many of his best Madonnas. By the 1490s his style became more personal and to some extent mannered, and he could be seen as moving in a direction opposite to that of a new generation of painters, creating the High Renaissance style just as Botticelli returned in some ways to the Gothic.
He has been described as "an outsider in the mainstream of Italian painting", who had a limited interest in many of the developments most associated with Quattrocento painting, such as the realistic depiction of human anatomy, perspective, and landscape, and the use of direct borrowings from classical art. His training enabled him to represent all these aspects of painting, without contributing to their development Ideal.

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