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Picture of the day

One of Sandro Botticelli's masterworks The Birth of Venus (ca. 1485), which depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a full grown woman. Venus in the painting is very similar to Praxiteles' sculpture of Aphrodite, and the pose resembles the Venus de' Medici, a marble sculpture from classical antiquity in the Medici collection which Botticelli had opportunity to study.