The Birth of Venus
Goddess from seafoam
The Birth of Venus is a painting by Sandro Botticelli, completed around 1485, depicting the goddess Venus emerging from the sea as a fully grown woman, standing on a giant scallop shell.
The image—Venus with flowing hair, blown toward shore by winds—has become iconic in Western art, referenced and parodied endlessly: She posed like the Birth of Venus at the beach.
- BotticelliQuattrocento painter from Florence
- Italian RenaissanceCultural rebirth in Florence
- Medici familyFlorentine banking dynasty
- goddessFemale sacred being
- shellHard outer covering
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- MasterpiecesMona Lisa, Last Supper, Starry Night, The Scream, David
- art historyart history, Renaissance, Baroque, Impressionism, modern art
- Renaissance artMichelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Botticelli, Titian
- BotticelliAnnunciation, Saint Augustine, Saint Sebastian, Judith, Lucretia
- classicsHomer, Iliad, the Iliad, Odyssey, the Odyssey
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