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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
Smartify artwork ID: sandro-botticelli-the-birth-of-venus ; Utpictura18 artwork ID: 4047 ; Zeri image ID: 15928 ; Uffizi artwork ID: birth-of-venus ; Florentine musea catalogue ID: 00158551 ; 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die, p. 119 ; Sandro Botticelli; Authority file:
Depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a fully grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore. The seashell she stands on was a symbol in classical antiquity for a woman's vulva. Thought to be based in part on the Venus de' Medici, an ancient Greek marble sculpture of Aphrodite.
Smartify artwork ID: sandro-botticelli-the-birth-of-venus ; Utpictura18 artwork ID: 4047 ; Zeri image ID: 15928 ; Uffizi artwork ID: birth-of-venus ; Florentine musea catalogue ID: 00158551 ; 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die, p. 119 ; Sandro Botticelli; Authority file:
Protesters targeted Botticelli's 'The Birth of Venus' painting in a demonstration at a museum in Florence.
Venus and Mars: c. 1485: Tempera and oil on panel: 69.2 × 173.4 cm: London, National Gallery: The Birth of Venus: c. 1485: Tempera on canvas: 172.5 × 278.5 cm: Florence, Uffizi: Virgin and Child with Six Angels and the Baptist: c. 1485: Tempera on panel: diameter 170 cm: Rome, Galleria Borghese: The Virgin and Child: c. 1485: Oil on panel: 83 ...
Detail from Botticelli's most famous work, [4] The Birth of Venus (c. 1484–1486) Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (c. 1445 [1] – May 17, 1510), better known as Sandro Botticelli (/ ˌ b ɒ t ɪ ˈ tʃ ɛ l i / BOT-ih-CHEL-ee; Italian: [ˈsandro bottiˈtʃɛlli]) or simply Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.
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