Rubens' Landing of Marie de Medici at Marseilles and Botticelli’s Birth of Venus can be compared according to its art movement which is Baroque and Renaissance respectively. Its medium that is in Oil Canvass and Tempera. It can also be through its story that has something in common with regards to a females’ arrival, Marie who embarks in the ship as she arrives into the French territory as her new home and soon to be new kingdom while Venus having emerged from the sea in shell and lands at Paphos in Cyprus. And also through paintings’ mythological genre that shows the Nereids of Nereus, the sea god who lived in the Mediterranean Sea on which Marie has traveled to get to Marseilles and Neptune who help during perilous storms and calms the waves to ensure Marie’s safe arrival. Venus on the other hand was blown towards the shore by the breeze aura and Zephyrus-the god of winds.
