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Sandro Botticelli: Birth of Venus Venus de Milo Majolica plate depicting the birth of Venus
Sandro Botticelli's painting The Birth of Venus shows the goddess Venus standing on a seashell at the shore, with wind gods blowing from the left and a woman holding a cloak on the right.
Venus with Cupid and a dolphin, classical sculpture Tinted Venus Sandro Botticelli: Birth of Venus Annibale Carracci: fresco of Venus and Anchises in the Palazzo Farnese, Rome
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Sandro Botticelli: Birth of Venus
Sandro Botticelli: Birth of Venus Birth of Venus, tempera on canvas by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1485; in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

Venus

Roman goddess
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Venus, ancient Italian goddess associated with cultivated fields and gardens and later identified by the Romans with the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite. Venus had no worship in Rome in early times, as the scholar Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 bce) shows, attesting that he could find no mention of her name in old records. This is corroborated by the absence of any festival for her in the oldest Roman calendar and by her lack of...

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