The Birth of Venus
Among the first large paintings since antiquity of a nude pagan goddess
- Author
- Sandro Botticelli
- Style
- Italian Renaissance — Antiquity measured anew: linear perspective, anatomy and proportion as the measure of man
- Century
- 15th century
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