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File:Sandro Botticelli - La nascita di Venere - Google Art Project - edited.jpg
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Sandro Botticelli: The Birth of Venus
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| Title |
Italian: Nascita di Venere  The Birth of Venus |
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| Series title |
Q117361736 |
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| Object type |
painting |
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| Genre |
mythological painting |
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| Description |
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. |
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| Date |
circa Early Renaissance (1420s–1500) |
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tempera on canvas |
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| Dimensions |
height: 173 cm (68.1 in) ; width: 279 cm (109.8 in) |
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| Accession number |
00158551 (Uffizi Gallery) |
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| Object history |
commissioned by Lorenzo and Giovanni di Pierfrancesco de'Medici for Villa di Castello (?) |
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| current | 07:07, 21 May 2023 | | 30,000 × 18,840 (211.2 MB) | wikimediacommons>Oursana | Reverted to version as of 23:19, 1 November 2012 (UTC) |
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