Tempera on canvas, 172 × 278 cm, painted by Sandro Botticelli around 1485,
probably commissioned by the Medici for one of their villas at Castello.
Venus arrives on the shore of Cyprus on a shell after being born from the
sea, blown in by the wind Zephyr and met by a female figure (probably one
of the Horae) holding out a cloak. The source was a poem by Angelo
Poliziano reworking an ancient text. It hangs in the Uffizi in Florence.
