{"id":11422,"date":"2019-05-22T12:27:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/?p=11422"},"modified":"2019-05-22T12:36:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:36:41","slug":"the-birth-of-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/the-birth-of-venus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birth of Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Often, I draw inspiration from old paintings.  I love to look through the many art books I&#8217;ve collected over the years.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For this project, I chose Botticelli&#8217;s painting &#8220;The Birth of Venus,&#8221; which he created in 1485.  It depicts the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth, when she had emerged from the sea fully-grown. The painting is in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uffizi.it\/en\/artworks\/birth-of-venus\">Uffizi Gallery<\/a> in Florence, Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is thought that Botticelli drew inspiration for this painting from the writings of the ancient poet Homer.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThanks to my team, hair &amp; makeup artist Melissa Hanson (pictured, left) and assistant Audrey Drake (pictured, right); and muse Katie Gaynor (center).\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/The-Birth-of-Venus-Maundy-Mitchell-Photography_0020-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/The-Birth-of-Venus-Maundy-Mitchell-Photography_0020-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/The-Birth-of-Venus-Maundy-Mitchell-Photography_0020-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/The-Birth-of-Venus-Maundy-Mitchell-Photography_0020-720x480.jpg 720w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/The-Birth-of-Venus-Maundy-Mitchell-Photography_0020-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/The-Birth-of-Venus-Maundy-Mitchell-Photography_0020-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/The-Birth-of-Venus-Maundy-Mitchell-Photography_0020-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/The-Birth-of-Venus-Maundy-Mitchell-Photography_0020.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"286\" src=\"http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/The-Birth-of-Venus-Behind-the-Scenes_0018-1024x286.jpg\" alt=\"Behind the scenes photos of the making of The Birth of Venus:  Notes \/ Maundy demonstrating \/ Melissa applying Katie's makeup\" class=\"wp-image-11429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/The-Birth-of-Venus-Behind-the-Scenes_0018-1024x286.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/The-Birth-of-Venus-Behind-the-Scenes_0018-120x33.jpg 120w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/The-Birth-of-Venus-Behind-the-Scenes_0018-720x201.jpg 720w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/The-Birth-of-Venus-Behind-the-Scenes_0018-768x214.jpg 768w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/The-Birth-of-Venus-Behind-the-Scenes_0018-150x42.jpg 150w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/The-Birth-of-Venus-Behind-the-Scenes_0018-100x28.jpg 100w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/The-Birth-of-Venus-Behind-the-Scenes_0018.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often, I draw inspiration from old paintings. I love to look through the many art books I&#8217;ve collected over the years. For this project, I chose Botticelli&#8217;s painting &#8220;The Birth of Venus,&#8221; which he created in 1485. It depicts the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth, when she had emerged from the<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-more blog-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/the-birth-of-venus\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21,28,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portraits","category-projects","category-the-birth-of-venus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11422"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11437,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422\/revisions\/11437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}