Sandro Botticelli - La nascita di Venere - Google Art Project - edited

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Sandro Botticelli - La nascita di Venere - Google Art Project - edited

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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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1485
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