The Renaissance of Venus - Walter Crane - Renaissance Painting - Framed Prints indian folk art pahari style gold and spices are sold

gold and spices are sold at the souks

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a hill in southwest Paris

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Osman Hamdi Bey (30 December 1842 – 24 February 1910) was an Ottoman administrator

The Renaissance of Venus - Walter Crane - Renaissance Painting - Framed Prints indian folk art pahari style gold and spices are soldCrane was inspired by Botticellis painting Birth of Venus from the 1480s. The compositions are similar. Both show Venus, the Roman goddess of love, emerging from the sea after her birth as a fully grown woman. Like Botticelli, Crane painted with tempera, a medium made from coloured pigment and egg yolk. At his wife Mary's request, rather than draw from a female model, Crane used a male model, Alessandro di Marco, for the body of Venus.