Having received more than 30,000 visitors to date, we are pleased to announce that the “Botticelli’s Venus: The Life and Times of a Goddess”
exhibition has been extended until March 15, 2014 to meet overwhelming public
demand.After the great success obtained by the exhibition in Hong Kong, MGM
Macau and the Consulate General of Italy in Hong Kong and Macau, with
the support of the Italian Cultural Institute, Mondo Mostre, Frilli
Gallery, Ministero dei Beni e delle Attivita’ Culturali e del Turismo
and Direzione Regionale per i Beni Culturali e Paesaggistici del
Piemonte, are honoured to present to the public in Macau one of Italy’s
“national treasures” – Venus (ca. 1482) by Florentine Renaissance
painter Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510). Sandro Botticelli,
patronized by noble families including the Medici, was a master in the
Italian High Renaissance, a period of rebirth of Antiquity, when
artistic works were characterised by technical mastery, heroic
composition and humanistic content. Among Botticelli’s
masterpieces is a collection of unique Venus paintings one of which, a
treasure from the celebrated Galleria Sabauda in Turin, will be on view
in Macau for the first time. The exhibition will be held at MGM Art
Space from December 20th through February 16th, 2014. An iconic
image of the high artistic achievement of the Renaissance (14th–16th
centuries), Botticelli’s Venus was a carefully executed tempera painting
on wood that exemplifies the sophisticated stylistic and humanist
values which Renaissance is celebrated for. Depicted in the nude by
Botticelli, the goddess Venus, a symbol of love, beauty, fertility and
prosperity in Greco-Roman mythology, embodies the ideal art form in
illuminating the verisimilitude and beauty of the human condition. Further information at: http://www.mgmmacau.com/mgm-art-space#botticellis-venus