The goddess perches upon a giant scallop shell, pale green waves lapping around her. Her long golden hair rustles in the wind as she is blown to shore upon her seashell vessel. She is nude, her body ...
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Rich Grilloti, “Birth of Venus” (2010) (image from killscreen.com) Botticelli’s original “The Birth of Venus” is hanging in a soul-stirring gallery in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, a masterpiece of ...
Two climate activists on Tuesday targeted Botticelli’s masterpiece “The Birth of Venus” hanging at Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, attaching images of recent flood damage in the Tuscany region on the ...