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Art Bites 165: Sandro Botticelli

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Botticelli painted big colorful celebrations of Renaissance themes like a fertile springtime or “Primavera.” His “Birth of Venus,” the first large-scale depiction of a naked women in a thousand years, symbolized the optimism of the age.

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