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 ...

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 ...

Botticelli’s iconic painting reshaped Renaissance art through its celebration of classical mythology and beauty. This episode explores the cultural, political, and philosophical influences that made ...

Climate activists plastered photos of Campi Bisenzio, a Tuscan town ravaged by flooding last year, over the glass protecting Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, ...

The Lonely Palette podcast brings art history to everyone. Host Tamar Avishai interviews museum visitors about famous ...

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Two climate activists on Tuesday targeted Botticelli's masterpiece "The Birth of Venus" hanging at Florence's Uffizi Gallery, attaching images of recent flood damage in the Tuscany region on the ...