The goddess perches upon a giant scallop shell, pale green waves lapping around her. Her long golden hair rustles in the wind as she is blown to shore upon her seashell vessel. She is nude, her body ...
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Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus: Beauty, myth, and the Renaissance ideal
Botticelli’s iconic painting reshaped Renaissance art through its celebration of classical mythology and beauty. This episode ...
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. NPR offers a correction to a piece earlier in the week in which we referred to the mollusk in the famous ...
Rich Grilloti, “Birth of Venus” (2010) (image from killscreen.com) Botticelli’s original “The Birth of Venus” is hanging in a soul-stirring gallery in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, a masterpiece of ...
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