<P> The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere (ˈnaʃʃita di ˈvɛːnere)) is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli probably made in the mid 1480s . It depicts the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth, when she had emerged from the sea fully - grown (called Venus Anadyomene and often depicted in art). The painting is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy . </P> <P> Although the two are not a pair, the painting is inevitably discussed with Botticelli's other very large mythological painting, the Primavera, also in the Uffizi . They are among the most famous paintings in the world, and icons of the Italian Renaissance; of the two, the Birth is even better known than the Primavera . As depictions of subjects from classical mythology on a very large scale they were virtually unprecedented in Western art since classical antiquity, as was the size and prominence of a nude female figure in the Birth . It used to be thought that they were both commissioned by the same member of the Medici family, but this is now uncertain . </P>

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