The Birth of Venus

Sandro Botticelli · c. 1485

Venus arrives on Cyprus in one of the Renaissance's defining reinventions of the goddess of love and beauty.

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Title: The Birth of Venus
Creator: Sandro Botticelli
Date: c. 1485
Holding source: Uffizi Galleries
Medium: Painting
Mythic links: Aphrodite

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Venus arrives on Cyprus in one of the Renaissance's defining reinventions of the goddess of love and beauty. MythBranch includes this work as evidence of later reception: it shows how a mythic figure or episode was selected, reshaped and transmitted for a new audience.

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