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Depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a fully grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore. The seashell she stands on was a symbol in classical antiquity for a woman's vulva. Thought to be based in part on the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_de%27_Medici" class="extiw" title="en:Venus de' Medici">Venus de' Medici</a></i>, an ancient Greek marble sculpture of Aphrodite.</div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Sandro_Botticelli" class="extiw" title="w:en:Sandro Botticelli"><span title="Italian painter (1445-1510)">Sandro Botticelli</span></a>
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1485
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