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LESSON 3 · Art's Greatest Unsolved Mysteries

PAUSE TO THINK

Why does Venus seem to float rather than stand?

Botticelli ignored gravity and shadows

The figures cast almost no shadows and barely touch the ground, so the scene feels weightless and dreamlike. Botticelli treated the painting as a vision of an ideal world, not a snapshot of a real beach.

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