The Birth of Venus sea brings forth Venus just as the Virgin gives birth to the ultimate symbol of love, Christ. Rather than choosing one of the many interpretations offered for Botticelli's depiction of the "Birth (Arrival?) of Venus" it might be better to view it from a variety of perspectives. This layered approach—mythological, political, religious—was intended. Botticelli, or more likely his workshop, repeated the figure of Venus in another painting of about 1490. This life-sized work depicts a similar figure and pose, partially clad in a light blouse, and contrasted against a plain dark background. It is in the Galleria Sabauda in Turin.
Virgin and Child with an Angel (Botticelli) Virgin and Child with an Angel (Botticelli) Virgin and Child with an Angel also known as Our Lady of the Eucharist (Italian: "Madonna dell'Eucarestia") is a tempera on wood panel painting by Sandro Botticelli made c.1470. It is now held by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, acquired from Prince Chigi in 1899. The painting measures and one of a series of Madonna paintings by Botticelli from 1465 and 1470. It shows influences from Filippo Lippi's "Virgin and Child and Angels" of c.1465 held by the Uffizi. The Virgin Mary is shown in a three quarter view, with