MMXII (album) the Aegean Sea, opposite to the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula behind Cape Maleas. This island was also the inspiration for many artists such as Italian early Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli for his painting "The Birth of Venus", as well as for other similarly themed paintings that show the goddess Venus arriving at the shore of Cythera, for French Rococo painter Antoine Watteau's painting Embarkation for Cythera and French Modernist poet Charles Baudelaire's poem "A Voyage to Cythera", in which the poet called the island a "banal El Dorado". The penultimate track, "Trance", has a rumbling bass line mirroring
Madonna of the Rose Garden (Botticelli) Madonna of the Rose Garden (Botticelli) The Madonna of the Rose Garden is a tempera on panel painting (124x64 cm) made by Sandro Botticelli, whose date of between 1469 and 1470 makes it one of his earliest paintings. It is now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. The work was in the Chamber of Commerce of Florence which leads to the hypothesis that like Botticelli's earlier painting, the "Madonna della loggia", it had been commissioned either by the Wool Guild or the Tribunale della Mercanzia. Wilhelm von Bode was the first to date the work to the artist's juvenile phase,