File:Sandro Botticelli - La nascita di Venere - Google Art Project - edited.jpg

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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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_de%27_Medici" class="extiw" title="en:Venus de' Medici">Venus de' Medici</a>, an ancient Greek marble sculpture of Aphrodite.

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current00:01, 4 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 00:01, 4 January 201730,000 × 18,840 (201.79 MB)127.0.0.1 (talk)<div class="description"> 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>
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