Botticelli's Birth of Venus was originally painted in 1486 inspired by the text in a Homeric hymn published in Florence in 1488: "Of august gold-wreathed and beautiful Aphrodite I shall sing to whose domain belong the battlements of all sea-loved Cyprus…
Botticelli's Birth of Venus was originally painted in 1486 inspired by the text in a Homeric hymn published in Florence in 1488: "Of august gold-wreathed and beautiful Aphrodite I shall sing to whose domain belong the battlements of all sea-loved Cyprus…