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Printed on a sheet of an ancient Italian art encyclopedia

The deer and his friends walk on the precious art writings

conservato al MET – Metropolitan Museum di New York

This work represents the defeat of a dragon to which a princess had been sacrificed to appease it

It is kept at the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon

Mix-up: Nascita di Venere, Botticelli Mare Printed on a sheet ofThe Goddess Venus represents the ideal of perfection of beauty, and the Venus of this painting is the ultimate ideal of female beauty in art. Here Venus is represented at the moment of her birth. She represents spiritual beauty in its forms of simplicity, purity and nobility of the soul, carried by a shell on the waves of the sea. The proportions, harmony and beauty of this Venus give light to any room, living room or bedroom. The "Birth of Venus" is