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The 12 pages that link to The Birth of Venus, each with the reason it gives.

• FlorenceBroader topic: It exemplifies the classical subjects cultivated by Florentine patrons.

• Renaissance artBroader topic: Its mythological subject shows how classical themes entered Renaissance painting.

• TemperaRelated: Botticelli used tempera on canvas, an unusual support for a famous Renaissance work.

• Florentine RenaissanceBroader topic: Botticelli’s mythological subject exemplifies the movement’s revival of classical themes.

• Uffizi GalleryBroader topic: This Uffizi masterpiece helped make Botticelli’s mythological painting central to the museum’s identity.

• Sandro BotticelliBroader topic: Its monumental mythological subject became Botticelli’s most recognizable image.

• Italian Renaissance paintingBroader topic: It exemplifies the recovery of classical myth as a subject for a major panel painting.

• Renaissance paintingBroader topic: Its mythological subject and linear elegance reveal a distinctive Florentine response to antiquity.

• Florentine paintingBroader topic: Its mythological subject and flowing line show the distinctive interests of late fifteenth-century Florence.

• Nude (art)Broader topic: Botticelli’s painting became a celebrated Renaissance example of the mythological female nude.

• QuattrocentoBroader topic: Its mythological subject and elegant linear style mark a distinctive late-century direction.

• Simonetta VespucciRelated: The painting’s central figure has often been associated with Simonetta, without firm proof she modeled for it.