A painting by the Florentine artist Sandro Botticelli, created around 1485, depicting the goddess Venus arriving fully formed at the shore on a scallop shell. One of the first large-scale non-religious paintings of the Italian Renaissance to take a mythological subject as its focus, it remains among the most recognized images of the period.
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The Birth of Venus was painted in tempera on canvas.
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A painting by the Florentine artist Sandro Botticelli, created around 1485, depicting the goddess Venus arriving fully formed at the shore on a scallop shell.
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