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Artist/Creator (1)	Botticelli, Sandro (born 1444 or 1445, died 1510)
Artist/Creator (1).Nationality	Italian (Florentine)
Artist/Creator (1).Role	artist, painter
Title/Caption	Birth of Venus
Date of Work	ca. 1484
Description of View	Central detail with Venus [Detail view: Venus, head to thighs]
Notes	Botticelli used tempera grassa, a medium that was new to Italy at the time, in which the egg yolk (the usual binder for tempera) was modified by the addition of oil to make the paint more transparent. [From the Villa Medici at Castello; made for Giovanni and Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici.]
Technique/Process	painting
Materials/Medium	tempera on canvas
Dimensions	172.5 x 278.5 cm (5 ft. 9 in. x 9 ft. 2 in.)
Period	Renaissance
Century	15th Century
Style of Work	Italian Renaissance
Location.Current Site/City & Country	Florence (Italy)
Location.Current Repository	Galleria degli Uffizi
Repository Notes	Inventory No. E1932-1-1
Related Persons	Artist/Creator also appears as Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi Alessandro Botticelli Sandro Filipepi Botticelli and Sandro Boticelli among other variants.
Subject	Painting, Italian Painting, Renaissance Painting, 15th Century Figures, female Nudes, female Venus (Roman deity) Aphrodite (Greek deity) Classical (subject matter)
Publisher	Saskia Ltd. Cultural Documentation
Publisher.Location	Freeport, Maine (United States)
Credit Line	(C) Dr. Ronald V. Wiedenhoeft
Reference Number	Saskia Lif-0931
Collection Title	Painting (Art and Art History Department images)
Collection Information	Collection administered by Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library (402) 472-1193
Copyright Information	http://contentdm.unl.edu/ah_copyright.html

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