Sandro Botticelli Birth of Venus Socks

Antonio Billi, contemporary of Botticelli, noted that the artist painted "the most beautiful naked women". This monumental nude, one of the earliest secular characters in post-antique European painting, is about the ancient figure of "Venus pudica".

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