The goddess perches upon a giant scallop shell, pale green waves lapping around her. Her long golden hair rustles in the wind as she is blown to shore upon her seashell vessel. She is nude, her body ...

Rich Grilloti, “Birth of Venus” (2010) (image from killscreen.com) Botticelli’s original “The Birth of Venus” is hanging in a soul-stirring gallery in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, a masterpiece of ...

A great work by Nicolas Poussin has confounded scholars and spies alike This beautiful painting by Nicolas Poussin has for centuries bamboozled art historians, who can’t decide whether it’s showing ...

Like the Sun and Moon, Venus spends approximately 30-days in each zodiac sign — sometimes longer if it retrogrades — meaning everyone has a Venus sign in their birth chart. Your Venus sign represents ...

Climate activists plastered photos of Campi Bisenzio, a Tuscan town ravaged by flooding last year, over the glass protecting Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, ...

NPR offers a correction to a piece earlier in the week in which we referred to the mollusk in the famous "Birth of Venus" painting by Botticelli as a clam shell. Now, a correction. On Tuesday, we ran ...

Venus is the planet of love, beauty, and fertility. Venus changes signs (roughly) every 30 days. Depending on if she's retrograde or not, she will be one to two signs from the Sun at all times.