Sandro Botticelli - The Birth of Venus (c. 1485)Sandro BotticelliItalian RenaissancesQuattrocentoGallerie degli UffiziMythologicalVenusSimonetta VespucciMarineSandro Botticelli's "The birth of Venus" depicts the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth, having emerged nude and fully-grown from the sea, as the classical mythology had it.