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Venus Was Her Name
This year’s Chelsea Flower Show in West London has a large clam shell where a model has been posing in it, representing Botticelli’s masterpiece “The Birth of Venus” aka “Nascita di Venere”. ‘Botticelli‘ was a nickname which he was given … Continue reading