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    The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere [ˈnaʃʃita di ˈvɛːnere]) is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, probably executed in the...
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    The Birth of Venus (French: Naissance de Venus) is a painting by the French artist Alexandre Cabanel. It was painted in 1863, and is now in the Musée...
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    The Birth of Venus (French: La Naissance de Vénus) is one of the most famous paintings by 19th-century painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau. It depicts not...
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  • of the goddess Venus The Birth of Venus (Boucher), 1754 The Birth of Venus (Bouguereau), 1879 The Birth of Venus (Cabanel), 1863 The Birth of Venus (Fragonard)...
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    The Birth of Venus or Venus Rising (The Star) (French: La Naissance de Vénus; Vénus — l'étoile) is an 1890 painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme. It depicts the...
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    The Birth of Venus is a 1907 painting by the French artist Henri Gervex. It is now in the Petit Palais, in Paris. It depicts the Greek goddess Venus (Aphrodite)...
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    The Birth of Venus is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist François Boucher, created c. 1750-1770. It is held in the Wallace Collection, in London...
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    The Birth of Venus (French: La Naissance de Vénus) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, produced between 1753 and 1755. It is held by...
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  • The Birth of Venus: A Novel is a 2003 novel by Sarah Dunant, a bestselling British author. The story is set in the late 15th century in Florence, Italy...
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    Botticelli used the type in his The Birth of Venus. Other versions of Venus' birth show her standing on land or shoreline, wringing the sea-water from...
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    inspiration from Ovid's description of the birth of Venus in his Metamorphoses. Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Venus (c. 1485) was also partially inspired...
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    The Triumph of Venus is a 1740 oil-on-canvas painting by François Boucher. It inspired The Birth of Venus by Jean-Honoré Fragonard.[citation needed] The...
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    Venus Anadyomene (Greek: Ἀναδυόμενη, "Venus, Rising from the Sea") is one of the iconic representations of the goddess Venus (Aphrodite), made famous in...
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    Venus and Mars (or Mars and Venus) is a panel painting of about 1485 by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli. It shows the Roman gods Venus...
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  • reprinted Venus on the Half-Shell with new cover art referencing The Birth of Venus. Farmer 2008, p. 23. Farmer, Philip José (2008), Venus on the Half-Shell...
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  • "Venus" is a song by Dutch rock band Shocking Blue, released as a single in the Netherlands in the summer of 1969. Written by Robbie van Leeuwen, the song...
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    her birth fully-grown. Venus, said to have been born from a shell, is identified by the shell at bottom left. It is smaller than usual in the birth of Venus...
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    Uffizi (category Collections of the Uffizi)
    Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus in protest over the Italian government's inaction on climate change. The painting was undamaged and the images were removed...
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    Sandro Botticelli (category 1440s births)
    are The Birth of Venus and Primavera, both in the Uffizi in Florence, which holds many of Botticelli's works. Botticelli lived all his life in the same...
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    The Sleeping Venus (Italian: Venere dormiente), also known as the Dresden Venus (Venere di Dresda), is a painting traditionally attributed to the Italian...
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    Simonetta Vespucci (category 1453 births)
    Detail of the Venus figure, representing marriage, in Primavera by Sandro Botticelli, circa 1482 Detail of the Venus figure in The Birth of Venus by Sandro...
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    Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. Jerusalem syndrome Lisztomania Paris syndrome The Stendhal Syndrome, a 1996 psychological thriller film on the subject Nick...
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    Alexandre Cabanel (category Members of the Royal Academy of Belgium)
    received the insignia of knight of the Legion of Honor, in 1855. He gained more recognition with The Birth of Venus, exhibited at the Salon of 1863, and...
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    of Venus, also in the Uffizi. They are among the most famous paintings in the world, and icons of the Italian Renaissance; of the two, the Birth is even...
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    Petra tou Romiou (category Geology of Cyprus)
    and the Aphrodite Hills resort are nearby. According to one legend, this rock is the site of the birth of the goddess Aphrodite, perhaps owing to the foaming...
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  • Banshee (musician) (category Year of birth missing (living people))
    studio albums: Fuck With a Banshee (2021), Fairy Metal (2022), and Birth of Venus (2023). Her music has received attention from Revolver, Loudwire, and...
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    The Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite (or Birth of Venus) by Nicolas Poussin, painted in 1635 or 1636, is a painting housed in Philadelphia in the Philadelphia...
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    The planet Venus has been used as a setting in fiction since before the 19th century. Its opaque cloud cover gave science fiction writers free rein to...
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  • Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, but this too was changed for the final release. The title track was also performed on Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band's...
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    including The Birth of Venus, La Danse, Dante and Virgil Louise Catherine Breslau - 4 paintings including Portrait of Henry Davison Alexandre Cabanel – The Birth...
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