Clockwise from upper left: a self-portrait from Vincent van Gogh, an African Chokwe people | Chokwe statue, detail from the The Birth of Venus ( Botticelli ) | Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli and a Japanese Shisa | Shisa lion

The Birth of Venus ( Bouguereau ) | The Birth of Venus by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, c. 1879

Óleo sobre lienzo, 130 x 225 cm ). jpg | Birth of Venus ( 1863 ) by Alexandre Cabanel

The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli

* Sandro Botticelli ( Primavera, The Birth of Venus, The Adoration of the Magi and others )

* The Thomas Pynchon novel V. contains a chapter centered around an attempted robbery of The Birth of Venus from the museum.

* The novel The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant makes extensive references to Savonarola.

* Alexandre Cabanel — The Birth of Venus, The Death of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta

* William Adolphe Bouguereau — The Birth of Venus

Simonetta Vespucci, a native Ligurian who was a famous beauty during the Renaissance, and may have been the model for Sandro Botticelli | Botticelli's The Birth of Venus ( Botticelli ) | The Birth of Venus.

In the Birth of Venus ( Botticelli ), Botticelli depicted the goddess Venus rising from the ocean on a scallop shell.

The Birth of Venus ( in Italian: Nascita di Venere ) is a 1486 painting by Sandro Botticelli.

Once again, Botticelli, in his version of the Birth of Venus, might be seen as completing the task begun by his ancient predecessor, even surpassing him.

: Such a deliberately re-creative act as Botticelli may have performed with his Birth of Venus would go a long way towards explaining the curious flatness and linearity of the painting, which seem so very out of keeping with the direction of Renaissance art and with Botticelli's own approach to painting.

: While Botticelli might well have been celebrated as a revivified Apelles, his Birth of Venus also testified to the special nature of Florence's chief citizen, Lorenzo de ' Medici.

Ultimately, these readings of the Birth of Venus flatter not only the Medici and Botticelli but all of Florence, home to the worthy successors to some of the greatest figures of antiquity, both in governance and in the arts.

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The mural of Venus from Pompeii was never seen by Botticelli, the painter of The Birth of Venus, but may have been a Roman copy of the then famous painting by Apelles which Lucian mentioned.

Raphael may have portrayed himself as Apelles in The School of Athens and Sandro Botticelli based two paintings — The Birth of Venus and Calumny of Apelles — on his works.

The Birth of Venus ( Botticelli ) | Botticellí's Venus

50 litas commemorative coins of Lithuania | commemorative coin dedicated to the 550th Birth Anniversary of St. Casimir

It was created by the Chinese government to alleviate social, economic, and environmental problems in China, and authorities claim that the policy has prevented more than 250 million births between 1980 and 2000, and 400 million births from about 1979 to 2011 ; this claim is disputed by two independent scholars, who put the number of prevented births from 1979 to 2009 at 100 million | author = Chen Wei | title = Sex Ratios at Birth in China | year = 2005 | accessdate = 2 March 2009

File: Giotto-Scrovegni-- 17-- Nativity, Birth of Jesus. jpg | Giotto ( 1267-1337 )

Image: Wielsbeke-Geboortehuis van Familie Roger De Clerck. JPG | Birth house of the second generation of the family De Clerck, founders of the Beaulieu group

File: Birth of the Wolves by Franz Marc 1913. jpeg | Birth of the Wolves, 1913, Yale University Art Gallery

File: Roman-Sarcophagus Depicting the Birth of Dionysus-Walters 2333. jpg | Sarcophagus Depicting the Birth of Dionysus at The Walters Art Museum.

the former figure is based on a somewhat unusual birth of four by a Central American female ( see chapter on Laying, Brooding, Hatching, and Birth ), the latter on a `` normal '' newly born individual.

Then, advised by the Architect of the Capitol, the Joint Committee for the Library, traditionally responsible for the works of art in the building, ordered the space cleared and painted in fresco, to show `` the Peace after the Civil War '', `` the Spanish-American War '', and `` the Birth of Aviation '', to match as nearly as feasible Brumidi's technique and composition.

Birth of Heracles by Jean Jacques Francois Le Barbier

The Birth of a Nation ( originally called The Clansman ) is a 1915 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and based on the novel and play The Clansman, both by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay ( with Frank E. Woods ), and co-produced the film ( with Harry Aitken ).

* Birth Control Device, slang for GI glasses, those issued by the U. S. military

* Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, a videogame for the PlayStation Portable

* New Birth, a 16th century work by anabaptist preacher Menno Simons, c. 1537, revised c. 1550

Nietzsche noted a link between crime and creativityin The Birth of Tragedy he asserted: " The best and brightest that man can acquire he must obtain by crime ".

Kaye's rubber face and fast patter were an instant hit, and rival producer Robert M. Savini cashed in almost immediately by compiling three of Kaye's old Educational Pictures shorts into a makeshift feature, The Birth of a Star ( 1945 ).

" Birth of the Irish Republic " by Walter Paget, depicting the GPO during the shelling

What became known as the popular ' classical Hollywood ' style of editing was developed by early European and American directors, in particular D. W. Griffith in his films such as The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance.

Birth of an Idea ( 2007 ) by Julian Voss-Andreae.

* Birth of Fire ( 1976 ) by Jerry Pournelle.

The material they recorded was released in 1956 on an album whose title, Birth of the Cool, gave its name to the " cool jazz " movement that developed at the same time and partly shared the musical direction begun by Davis ' group.

The Disney version of Merlin appears in the ARPGs Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts II and Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep.

* Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book by Gerard Jones ( Basic Books, 2004 ) trade paperback ISBN 0-465-03657-0

Feature films, such as The Reincarnation of Peter Proud, Dead Again, Kundun, Fluke, What Dreams May Come and Birth, contemporary books by authors such as Carol Bowman and Vicki Mackenzie, as well as popular songs, deal with reincarnation.

Starting with the mostly original score composed by Joseph Carl Breil for D. W. Griffith's groundbreaking epic The Birth of a Nation ( USA, 1915 ) it became relatively common for the biggest-budgeted films to arrive at the exhibiting theater with original, specially composed scores.