Inside Botticelli's Birth of Venus

“A panoramic scene painted in the style of Sandro Botticelli's early Italian Renaissance tempera, with delicate linear contours, pale luminous flesh, and a palette of seafoam, rose, gold, and apple green. Foreground shows the great scallop shell drifting on rippled waves, the goddess Venus standing in serene gold-threaded hair. Midground reveals winged zephyrs blowing roses across the breeze and an attendant nymph holding a flower-strewn cloak. Background shows a stylized blue-green sea fading into a hilly shore dotted with orange groves.”