Carol: The Venus of Botticelli
Carol has so many good reviews that one more would not add anything new, unless all the other reviewers have missed the essence of what she represents. Well, what everyone has missed about Carol, including her, is that she bears an extremely close resemblance to the Venus of Botticelli β the style, colour, texture and length of her hair, her face, her body, expression and demeanour and even her posture while standing nude. For more than 500-years this painting has been admired as a symbol of virginal beauty, purity and lust. It tells us how the new-born Aphrodite was blown by the soft breath of the Zephyrs, on the foam of the Aegean waves to shore. Heaven and earth rejoice at her coming. The Hours wait to welcome her and spread a star-sown robe over her white limbs, countless flowers spring up in the grass where her feet will tread. He has represented his Venus Anadyomene laying one hand on her snowy breast, the other on her loose tresses of golden hair, with feet resting on the golden shell she glides softly over the rippling surface of the waves. I felt exactly the same that heaven and earth rejoiced by making love to her.
