Curator’s inspection
Move across the painting — or drag on touch — to study brushwork and craquelure through the curator’s loupe.
The Birth of Venus
The goddess arrives on a scallop shell, blown ashore by Zephyr — a Neoplatonic vision of divine beauty.
One of the first large-scale mythological nudes since antiquity, likely painted for the Medici circle.
Florentine Neoplatonists saw Venus as an image of heavenly love leading the soul toward God.
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