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The Birth of Venus
Painting by Sandro Botticelli
For other uses, see The Birth of Venus (disambiguation).
The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere[ˈnaʃʃitadiˈvɛːnere]) is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, probably executed in the mids.
It depicts the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth, when she had emerged from the sea fully-grown (called Venus Anadyomene and often depicted in art).
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The painting is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.
Although the two are not a pair, the painting is inevitably discussed with Botticelli's other very large mythological painting, the Primavera, also in the Uffizi.
They are among the most famous paintings in the world, and icons of Italian Renaissance painting; of the two, the Birth is better known than the Primavera.[1] As depictions of subjects from classical mythology on a very large scale they were virtually unprecedented in Western art since classical antiquity,