Category:The Birth of Venus (Botticelli)

**The Birth of Venus**
	painting by Sandro Botticelli
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Instance of	painting
Main subject	Venus Anadyomene
Depicts	birth; Pecten maximus; Zephyrus (foreground, left); Venus (foreground, Simonetta Vespucci, red hair, nudity, contrapposto); Horae (right, foreground); sea (green, left); shore (right); sky (background, blue, white); tree (background, right); rose (pink, left); woman; Aphrodite; long hair; umbilicus; wind;
Material used	tempera; canvas (painting surface);
Genre	mythological painting; nude;
Location	Uffizi Gallery - Room 10-14, Botticelli's, Uffizi Museum, Uffizi, Florence, Metropolitan City of Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Creator	Sandro Botticelli;
Present in work	Pang! 3;
Based on	Jupiter (Venus); birth of Aphrodite;
Collection	Uffizi Museum (Inv. 1890: 878);
Inventory number	Inv. 1890: 878 (Uffizi Museum);
Inception	c. 1485;
Width	278.5 cm;
Height	172.5 cm;
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English: The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli. For other depictions of the birth of Venus, see Venus Anadyomenes

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	painter and artist
Date of birth/death	1 March 1445	17 May 1510 / 16 May 1510
Location of birth/death	Florence	Florence
Work location	Florence (1469–1481), Pisa (1475), Rome (1481–1482), Florence (1482–1490), Volterra (ca. 1483), Mantua (1502), Florence (1503–1510)
Authority control	: Q5669 VIAF: 19686406 ISNI: 0000 0001 2099 4768 ULAN: 500015254 LCCN: n79022942 NLA: 35020599 MusicBrainz: 941961a5-6ece-492d-8298-86e3211b33e3 WGA: BOTTICELLI, Sandro Open Library: OL131884A GND: 118514008 SELIBR: 178807 SUDOC: 031637531 BNF: 119585037 NDL: 00433953 NKC: jn20000700212 SBN: IT\ICCU\CFIV\034976 BNE: XX1036706 KulturNav: e2680051-d198-4108-9094-a77cb57402f8 RKD: 11286 NLI: 000023406 Koninklijke: 068790511 NLK: KAC199603071 WorldCat

Title

Italian: Nascita di Venere
The Birth of Venus

Object type

painting

Genre

mythological painting

Depicted people

Date

circa 1485

Medium

tempera on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 172.5 cm (67.9 in)

; Width: 278.5 cm (109.6 in)

Collection

Uffizi Museum

	Native name	Galleria degli Uffizi
	Location	Florence
	Coordinates	43° 46′ 06″ N, 11° 15′ 21″ E
	Established	1581 (built), 1765 (open to public)
	Authority control	: Q16335227 VIAF: 316731929

Current location

room Botticelli

Accession number

Inv. 1890: 878 (Uffizi Museum)

Object history

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

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,Taschen, Art & Art Instruction, 2000 ISBN 3822859923, p. 95

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