Botticelli, Sandro. The Birth of Venus. c. 1485-86; painted for the villa of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici at Castello; Tempera on canvas, 172.5 x 278.5 cm (67 7/8" x 109 5/8 "); now in the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence.
Image Courtesy of The Web Museum, Paris: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/botticelli/venus/

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