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
Portrait of a Young Woman (Botticelli, Frankfurt) similar Botticelli paintings are to be found in the National Gallery, London, the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, and in the Marubeni Collection, Tokyo. David Alan Brown of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. describes the painting as of an ideally beautiful young woman mythologised as a nymph or goddess, a view reflected in the title given it by the Städel. It belongs to a group of such paintings by Botticelli or his workshop. The art historian Aby Warburg first suggested the painting was an idealised portrait of Simonetta Vespucci. It is suggested that Quattrocento paintings of hair and water are