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Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus (c. 1484–1486).Tempera on canvas. 172.5 cm × 278.9 cm (67.9 in × 109.6 in). Uffizi, Florence Detail: the face of Venus. 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.
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:
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:
Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman: c. 1483–1486: Fresco: 211 × 283 cm: Paris, Musée du Louvre: A Young Man Being Introduced to the Seven Liberal Arts: c. 1483–1486: Fresco: 237 × 269 cm: Paris, Musée du Louvre: Bardi Altarpiece (The Virgin and Child Enthroned) 1484: Tempera on panel: 185 × 180 cm: Berlin ...
Protesters targeted Botticelli's 'The Birth of Venus' painting in a demonstration at a museum in Florence.
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.
Detail of the Venus figure in The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli, circa 1484-1486 A Satyr mourning over a Nymph by Piero di Cosimo, circa 1495 Regarding each Portrait of a Woman pictured above, credited to the workshop of Sandro Botticelli, Ronald Lightbown claims they were creations of Botticelli's workshop that were likely neither drawn ...