The Birth of Venus Systems used different versions of the painting in the splash screens and icons of their vector drawing app, Adobe Illustrator. Despite being the app's most cherished icon of the time, while a vector artist named Orlando Arocena tried to submit artwork for the Adobe Illustrator CC 2014 splash screen featuring a woman paying homage to the icon, he was worried that Venus's pose in the artwork would generate controversy. The Birth of Venus The Birth of Venus ( ) is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli probably made in the mid 1480s. It depicts the goddess Venus arriving
Sandro Botticelli the Baptist and an unusually elderly John the Evangelist stand in the foreground. Small and inconspicuous banderoles or ribbons carrying biblical verses elucidate the rather complex theological meaning of the work, for which Botticelli must have had a clerical advisor, but do not intrude on a simpler appreciation of the painting and its lovingly detailed rendering, which Vasari praised. It is somewhat typical of Botticelli's relaxed approach to strict perspective that the top ledge of the bench is seen from above, but the vases with lilies on it from below. The donor, from the leading Bardi family, had returned to