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The Birth of Venus shows the Goddess of Love and Beauty as she arrives on the shore of Cyprus after she was born, rising from the sea fully formed. Venus reaches the shore on top of a large scallop shell, blown by the wind god, Zephyr and Aura, a minor breeze deity whom he carries in his arms. The w...

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A Masterpiece from the Italian Renaissance

Discover the enchanting beauty and grace of Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, a true masterpiece of the Ita...

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The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere) is a 1486 painting by Sandro Botticelli. Botticelli was commissioned to paint the work by the Medici family of Florence, specifically Lorenzo de' Medici. It depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a fully grown woman, arriving at the ...

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The Last Miracle and Death of St. Zenobius is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, c. 1500-1505. It was part of series of four pictures displaying episodes of the life of the saint, which is the last known work by the Florentine painter. It is housed in the Gemäldegalerie ...

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The Calumny of Apelles is a tempera painting by Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli. Based on the description of a painting by Apelles, the work was completed in approximately 1494. It is on display in the Uffizi in Florence. In The Calumny of Apelles, Botticelli drew on the description of...

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Primavera, also known as Allegory of Spring, is a tempera panel painting by Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli. Painted ca. 1482, the painting is described in Culture & Values (2009) as '[o]ne of the most popular paintings in Western art'. It is also, according to Botticelli, Primavera (19...

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The Calumny of Apelles is a panel painting in tempera by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli. Based on the description of an ancient lost painting by Apelles, the work was completed in about 1494–95, and is now in the Uffizi, Florence. The content of Apelles' painting, as described by ...

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The Lamentation of Christ (also known as the Lamentation over the Dead Christ, or the Dead Christ and other variants) is a painting of about 1480 by the Italian Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna. While the dating of the piece is debated, it was completed between 1475 and 1501, probably in the early...

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A fresco on the northern wall of the Sistine Chapel. It is part of the series on the life of Jesus. It appears that Jesus has just shared the bread and the wine. He tells his followers that he will soon die. The apostles seem shocked - unfortunately Rosselli didn't have a talent for depicting emotio...

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A Masterpiece of Love and War

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The Mystical Nativity is a painting of circa 1500–1501 by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, in the National Gallery in London. Botticelli built up the image using oil paint on canvas. It is his only signed work, and has a very unusual iconography for a Nativity. The Greek inscription...

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Discovering the Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland

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