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The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere [ˈnaʃʃita di ˈvɛːnere]) is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, probably executed in the mid-1480s. It depicts the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth, when she had emerged from the sea fully-grown (called Venus Anadyomene and often depicted in art).
The Birth of Venus (French: La Naissance de Vénus) is one of the most famous paintings by 19th-century painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau.It depicts not the actual birth of Venus from the sea, but her transportation in a shell as a fully mature woman from the sea to Paphos in Cyprus.
The Birth of Venus (French: La Naissance de Vénus) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French Rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard, produced between 1753 and 1755. [2] It is held by the Musée Grobet-Labadié in Marseille.
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The Birth of Venus: A Novel is a 2003 novel by Sarah Dunant, a bestselling British author. [1] [2] [3] The story is set in the late 15th century in Florence, Italy.It was first published by Little, Brown in 2003 with the title The Birth of Venus: Love and Death in Florence.
The Birth of Venus (French: Naissance de Venus) is a painting by the French artist Alexandre Cabanel.It was painted in 1863, and is now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.A second and smaller version (85 x 135.9 cm) from ca. 1864 is in Dahesh Museum of Art. [1]
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Venus Anadyomene (Venus "rising from the sea"), based on a once-famous painting by the Greek artist Apelles showing the birth of Aphrodite from sea-foam, fully adult and supported by a more-than-lifesized scallop shell. The Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli used the type in his The Birth of Venus. Other versions of Venus' birth show ...