Botticelli's ""Birth of Venus"" was originally painted in 1486; inspired by the text in a Homeric hymn published in Florence in 1488 by the Greek refugee Demetrios Chalcondyles, ""Of august gold-wreathed and beautiful Aphrodite I shall sing to whose…
Botticelli's ""Birth of Venus"" was originally painted in 1486; inspired by the text in a Homeric hymn published in Florence in 1488 by the Greek refugee Demetrios Chalcondyles, ""Of august gold-wreathed and beautiful Aphrodite I shall sing to whose…