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
Punishment of the Sons of Corah sink into it. The children of Korah are spared the fate of their father. The intended message of the painting is clear, no one should doubt the authority of the Pope over the Church. The power of the papacy was constantly being questioned at the time. Punishment of the Sons of Corah The Punishment of the Sons of Corah or Punishment of the Rebels is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, executed in 1480–1482 in the Sistine Chapel, Rome. On 27 October 1480 Botticelli, together with other Florentine painters, left for Rome, where he had been called