Judgement of Paris
Sandro Botticelli·1486
Historical Context
This Judgement of Paris from circa 1486 at the Cini Palace Gallery depicts the mythological beauty contest that triggered the Trojan War. Paris's choice of Venus over Juno and Minerva was a popular classical subject that allowed Renaissance painters to depict three idealized female nudes Oil on canvas, increasingly preferred over panel in the sixteenth century, offered greater flexibility for large-scale compositions The work is now in the collection of Cini Palace Gallery.
Technical Analysis
The three goddesses are rendered with Botticelli's elegant linear style, each nude figure posed with the flowing grace and refined contour that made his mythological paintings among the most admired of the quattrocento.
