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The Birth of Venus

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1879

Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Despite the title, this isn't a birth. Bouguereau painted Venus already grown, sailing to Cyprus on a scallop shell that a dolphin tows through calm water.

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