The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli The characters on the canvas "The Birth of Venus" are Venus, Zephyr, Chloris and the Hora of springtime. Venus or Aphrodite Chronos, god of time, cuts off and throws into the sea the testicles of his father, Uranus; This fertilizes the sea, Venus was born from the rubbing of the foam of these genitals. Venus is the goddess of love, the center of the canvas is hers, she is standing on seashell, a symbol of female fertility, so that to be taken somewhere on the island of Cythera. Although she is naked, she covers herself with her long hair on her genitals, also with her right arm she tries to cover her chest Zephyr and Chloris Zephyr, god of the wind, drives Venus towards the shore with his breeze. He himself holds his wife, Chloris, goddess of flowers. Moreover, the woman drops flowers, these are hers, the rose means love but the thorns are a symbol that love can hurt us. Hora of springtime On the shore, th