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Course: Europe 1300 - 1800 > Unit 3

Lesson 3: Painting in central Italy

Botticelli, Birth of Venus (quiz)

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In the middle ages, and in the Renaissance before Botticelli, the female nude was rare, and when it was represented, it was usually as the biblical figure of
. Botticelli is breaking this convention by showing a nude Venus.
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