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Summary
Sandro Botticelli: The Birth of Venus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q5669 |
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Title | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. |
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Date |
from 1484 until 1485 date QS:P571,+1484-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1484-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1485-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium |
tempera on panel medium QS:P186,Q175166;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259 |
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Dimensions |
length: 278.5 cm (109.6 in); height: 172.5 cm (67.9 in) dimensions QS:P2043,278.5U174728 dimensions QS:P2048,172.5U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q51252 |
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Current location |
room Botticelli |
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Accession number |
00158551 (Uffizi Gallery) |
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Object history |
commissioned by Lorenzo and Giovanni di Pierfrancesco de'Medici for Villa di Castello (?) |
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References |
Polo Museale Fiorentino, Inventario 1890: online database: entry 878 (Italian) English: Text about "Birth of Venus" from E.H. Gombrich, "The Story of Art" Deimling, Barbara. Sandro Botticelli, published 2000. Taschen, Art & Art Instruction, ISBN 3822859923, p. 95 |
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Source/Photographer |
This file was derived from: Sandro Botticelli - La nascita di Venere - Google Art Project.jpg: |
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File change date and time | 09:48, 8 July 2017 |
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Date and time of digitizing | 05:48, 8 July 2017 |
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