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Title Italian: Nascita di Venere
The Birth of Venus
Object type Painting
Medium tempera on panel
Dimensions Length: 278.5 cm (109.6 in). Height: 172.5 cm (67.9 in).
room Botticelli
Object history commissioned by Lorenzo and Giovanni di Pierfrancesco de'Medici for Villa di Castello (?)
References
English: Text about "Birth of Venus" from E.H. Gombrich, "The Story of Art"


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