A new discovery related to the famous painting “The Birth of Venus” by Italian painter Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510), has just been published by the medical journal Acta Biomadica. Accordingly, the surgeon Davide Lazzeri, a person with a very erudite knowledge of art, pointed out that the painter Botticelli brought the details of medical anatomy into this painting.
“This is a personal and speculative expression; however, it is entirely consistent with an earlier study of another famous Botticelli painting “Spring” by researchers The research was conducted by Blech and Doliner. In this study, it was discovered that the shape of two lungs hidden in the vegetation perspective behind the main face of the character Venus,” said surgeon Davide Lazzeri explain.
The famous painting “The Birth of Venus”. (Image source: artpaintingartist).
If you look closely at the picture, the viewer can see that the coat that the fairy Xuan Flora wants to wear on the goddess Venus is in fact hiding the exact shape of the lung with the actual color. The image of the lungs may have been inspired by Botticelli’s inspiration from the “Neoplatonic” school of philosophy of the Médicis dynasty, which was an allegorical symbol for the human life cycle born of the breath of God.
In the painting “The Birth of Venus” , which is currently on display at the Uffizi museum in Florence (Central Italy), the artist Botticelli seems to only pay attention to the right lung with the hilar showing in the right lung. just below Flora’s left hand; from there appear bronchi, blood vessels and nerves running through.
According to anatomist Davide Lazzeri, there is another interpretation related to the lung symbolism in Botticelli’s paintings. Every Botticelli fan knows that the young Florentine aristocrat Simonetta Vespucci Cattaneo, considered the muse who inspired the artist to sketch the face of Venus, died of pneumonia .