IB Prized Writing Sevenoaks School IB Prized Writing 2014 | Page 78

Zoe Dawson - Visual Art
A comparison of depictions of the
Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli,
and the painting of the same name
by Alexandre Cabanel.
To what extent do the artists’
manipulation of the formal elements
of painting assist them in achieving
their aims?
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