File:Sandro Botticelli - La nascita di Venere - Google Art Project.jpg

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Artist	Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510)   Alternative names Birth name: Allessandro Filipepi Sandro Filipepi Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi Botticelli Description Italian painter, fresco painter and draughtsman Date of birth/death circa 1445 17 May 1510 Location of birth/death Florence Florence Work location Florence (1469–1481), Pisa (1475), Rome (1481–1482), Florence (1482–1490), Volterra (ca. 1483), Mantua (1502), Florence (1503–1510) Authority control VIAF: 19686406 ISNI: 0000 0001 2099 4768 ULAN: 500015254 LCCN: n79022942 NLA: 35020599 WorldCat
Title	Italian: Nascita di Venere The Birth of Venus
Description	Depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a fully grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore. The seashell she stands on was a symbol in classical antiquity for a woman's vulva. Thought to be based in part on the Venus de' Medici, an ancient Greek marble sculpture of Aphrodite.
Date	from 1483 until 1485[1]
Medium	tempera on panel
Dimensions	Length: 278.5 cm (109.6 in). Height: 172.5 cm (67.9 in).
Current location	Uffizi Gallery   Native name Galleria degli Uffizi Location Florence Coordinates 43° 46′ 07″ N, 11° 15′ 19″ E    Established 1581 (built), 1765 (open to public) Website www.uffizi.beniculturali.it Authority control VIAF: 169401840 ISNI: 0000 0001 2172 1622 LCCN: n79007196 GND: 2042762-1 SUDOC: 027439534 WorldCat
	room Botticelli
Object history	commissioned by Lorenzo and Giovanni di Pierfrancesco de'Medici for Villa di Castello (?)
References	English: Text about "Birth of Venus" from E.H. Gombrich, "The Story of Art" ↑ Deimling, Barbara. Sandro Botticelli, published 2000. Taschen, Art & Art Instruction, ISBN 3822859923, p. 95
Source/Photographer	MQEeq50LABEBVg at Google Cultural Institute, zoom level maximum
Other versions	Original from Google Art Project Edited to brighten See also Category:The Birth of Venus (Botticelli) for other digitizations.

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