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 Lady Known as Smeralda Brandini "* The same Lady, here surrounded by the masque of Spring, is evidently the subject of a portrait by Botticelli formerly in the Pourtales collection in Paris. This portrait is inscribed "Smeralda Bandinelli"". Rossetti's suggestion that the portrait depicted the model Botticelli used for his "Spring" now seems unlikely. Portrait of a Lady Known as Smeralda Brandini The Portrait of Smeralda Brandini is a tempera on panel painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli of about 1475, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (museum no. CAI.100). The identification of the sitter is based on the old, but probably