c.1458~86, 175*280cm.
Venus waits ready to cover up her sweet and naked body.We cannot look upon love unclothed, says The Birth of Venus;
we are too weak, maybe too polluted, to bear the beauty. Botticelli accepted that paganism, too, was a religion and could
bear profondly philosophical significance. His religious paintings manifest this belief by converging all truths into one.
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