Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, 1483–85, tempera on canvas, 68 x 109 5/8″ (172.5 x 278.5 cm) (Galeria degli Uffizi, Florence)

Additional resources:

This painting at the Uffizi

Sandro Botticelli: Master of the Florentine Renaissance on ArtUK

Jane C. Long, “Botticelli’s ‘Birth of Venus’ as Wedding Painting,” Aurora: The Journal of the History of Art, 9 (2008), pp. 1–27.

Paintings of Love and Marriage in the Italian Renaissance on The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

This painting on Google Arts and Culture

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