The Birth of Venus
The story
Venus arrives at the shore on a giant scallop shell, blown by Zephyrs, met by Hora with a robe. Painted around 1485 for the Medici — Botticelli's most famous canvas, the model for centuries of nude-on-shell imitations.
- Artist
- Sandro Botticelli
- Year
- 1480
- Period
- Renaissance
- Where it lives
- Wikidata / Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Free to view, download & share
