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Sandro Botticelli: The Birth of Venus

Artist



Alternative names	Birth name: Allessandro Filipepi Sandro Filipepi Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi Botticelli
Description	Italian painter, draftsperson, architectural draftsperson and fresco painter
Date of birth/death	circa 1445	17 May 1510
Location of birth/death	Florence	Florence
Work period	1460 –1510
Work location	Florence (1469–1481), Pisa (1475), Rome (1481–1482), Florence (1482–1490), Volterra (ca. 1483), Mantua (1502), Florence (1503–1510)
Authority file	: Q5669 VIAF: 179145970098632250973 ISNI: 0000000120994768 ULAN: 500015254 LCCN: n79022942 NLA: 35020599 WorldCat

Title

Italian:

Nascita di Venere

The Birth of Venus

Series title

Q117361736

Object type

painting

Genre

mythological painting

Description

Depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a fully grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore. The seashell she stands on was a symbol in classical antiquity for a woman's vulva. Thought to be based in part on the Venus de' Medici, an ancient Greek marble sculpture of Aphrodite.

Depicted people

Date

circa 1485

Early Renaissance (1420s–1500)

Medium

tempera on canvas

Dimensions

height: 172.5 cm (67.9 in)

; width: 278.5 cm (109.6 in)

Collection

Uffizi Gallery

	Native name	Galleria degli Uffizi
	Location	Florence
	Coordinates	43° 46′ 06″ N, 11° 15′ 19″ E
	Established	1581 (built), 1765 (open to public)
	Website	www.uffizi.it
	Authority file	: Q51252 VIAF: 169401840 ISNI: 0000000121721622 ULAN: 500125191 LCCN: n79007196 NLA: 36540829 WorldCat

Uffizi Gallery

	Native name	Galleria degli Uffizi
	Location	Florence
	Coordinates	43° 46′ 06″ N, 11° 15′ 19″ E
	Established	1581 (built), 1765 (open to public)
	Website	www.uffizi.it
	Authority file	: Q51252 VIAF: 169401840 ISNI: 0000000121721622 ULAN: 500125191 LCCN: n79007196 NLA: 36540829 WorldCat

Accession number

00158551 (Uffizi Gallery)

Object history

commissioned by Lorenzo and Giovanni di Pierfrancesco de'Medici for Villa di Castello (?)

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Source/Photographer

Adjusted levels from File:Sandro Botticelli - La nascita di Venere - Google Art Project.jpg, originally from Google Art Project. Compression Photoshop level 9.

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Original from Google Art Project
Edited to brighten

See also Category:The Birth of Venus (Botticelli) for other digitizations.

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Data arrangement	chunky format
Software used	Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 Windows
File change date and time	14:36, 1 November 2012
Color space	Uncalibrated
Date and time of digitizing	06:24, 8 February 2011
Date metadata was last modified	07:36, 1 November 2012
Unique ID of original document	xmp.did:2BB974E86A24E2118DFFD5AA4F673407

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