Which Italian Renaissance artist painted 'The Birth of Venus'?

Sandro Botticelli painted The Birth of Venus, probably in the mid-1480s during the Italian Renaissance.

The large mythological painting shows Venus arriving at the shore after emerging fully grown from the sea. Zephyrus, the wind god, blows her toward land with a companion, while one of the Horae—goddesses associated with the seasons—waits to cover her with a flowered garment. Botticelli adapted ideas from classical mythology and ancient descriptions of Venus rising from the sea.

The painting was unusually ambitious for its time: a large-scale secular image featuring a central nude female figure, rather than a biblical or civic subject. It is painted on canvas rather than the wood panel more typical of Botticelli’s work, and it is now displayed in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery.

Readers often confuse it with Primavera, another famous mythological work by Botticelli that is also in the Uffizi. The two paintings are frequently discussed together, but they are separate works. The exact original commission for The Birth of Venus remains uncertain, despite its long association with the Medici family.