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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.
Work location: Florence (1469–1481 ... The Birth of Venus; User:Jane023/Paintings in the Gemäldegalerie Berlin; ... El nacimiento de Venus (Botticelli) Usage on fi ...
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.
Protesters targeted Botticelli's 'The Birth of Venus' painting in a demonstration at a museum in Florence.
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:
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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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