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Sandro Botticelli: The Birth of Venus

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Sandro Botticelli: The Birth of Venus  wikidata:Q151047 reasonator:Q151047
Artist
Sandro Botticelli  (1445–1510)  wikidata:Q5669 q:it:Sandro Botticelli
 
Sandro Botticelli
Alternative names
Birth name: Allessandro Filipepi
Sandro Filipepi
Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi
Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi Botticelli
Description Italian painter, drawer, architectural draftsperson and fresco painter
Date of birth/death circa  Edit this at Wikidata 17 May 1510 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Florence Florence
Work period 1460 Edit this at Wikidata–1510 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Florence (1469–1481), Pisa (1475), Rome (1481–1482), Florence (1482–1490), Volterra (ca. 1483), Mantua (1502), Florence (1503–1510)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q5669
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Series title Q117361736 Edit this at Wikidata
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre mythological painting Edit this at Wikidata
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 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
Medium tempera on panel
medium QS:P186,Q175166;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
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
institution QS:P195,Q51252
Current location
room Botticelli
Accession number
00158551 (Uffizi Gallery) Edit this at Wikidata
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, published 2000. Taschen, Art & Art Instruction, ISBN 3822859923, p. 95
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