Venus arrives on a scallop shell, blown ashore by the winds Zephyr and Aura while a Hora rushes to clothe her. One of the first large-scale pagan nudes since antiquity, painted for the Medici circle and steeped in Neoplatonic ideas of divine beauty.
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Botticelli picked out the highlights in Venus's hair and the trees with real gold.
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