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One of
Sandro Botticelli
's masterworks
The Birth of Venus
(ca. 1485), which depicts the goddess
Venus
, having emerged from the
sea
as a full grown woman. Venus in the painting is very similar to
Praxiteles
' sculpture of
Aphrodite
, and the pose resembles the
Venus de' Medici
, a marble sculpture from
classical antiquity
in the
Medici
collection which Botticelli had opportunity to study.
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