The Birth of Venus Size:Large | 23 x 38.5 in Portrait of a three-quarter-bust woman

Portrait of a three-quarter-bust woman with bare breasts

and detail is kept to a minimum

His source of inspiration is none other than his overflowing imagination and the garden below his home in Paris

Munch discovered a shared spiritual kinship as both suffered from loneliness

ideal and natural

The Birth of Venus Size:Large | 23 x 38.5 in Portrait of a three-quarter-bust womanThis work, one of the most famous in the world, represents Venus, goddess of beauty, allegory of universal fertility, born from the waves of the sea (Venus is known as anadyomene). Aerial, the young woman is standing in a shell, on which she hardly seems to rest. She is also modest Venus, hiding her penis behind her long hair animated by the wind. His posture, in contrapposto, recalls ancient sculpture. It seems that the model was Julien de Medici's