The Museum Without Walls/Le Musée Imaginaire - Sandro Botticelli (Florentine, c. 1445-1510) Detail left: Venus and Mars (c. 1483) Tempera on wood National Gallery, London Venus may have been Simonetta Vespucci, a
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