{"product_id":"aphrodite-exhibition-poster-botticelli-venus","title":"Aphrodite Exhibition Poster: Botticelli Venus","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA3 exhibition poster, depicting the goddess Venus (Aphrodite) in close detail from Sandro Botticelli's oil on canvas painting (c.1490).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK17;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003eThis is one of two poster designs accompanying the special exhibition \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAphrodite: The Making of a Goddess\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eon display at the Ashmolean Museum\u003cstrong\u003e 8 October 2026 to 11 April 2027\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA3 poster printed on 170gsm FSC smooth uncoated paper. Supplied rolled in a cardboard tube.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnlike in the iconic multi-figure painting housed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the birth of Venus is not the theme here. Whilst the original Birth of Venus presents the goddess of love, born of the sea foam, being driven to the coast of Cyprus by personifications of the winds on a great shell, only to be veiled immediately; here she stands directly and alone in front of the viewer - stripped of her history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSandro Botticelli (1445-1510)\u003c\/strong\u003e was an Italian painter who was one of the greatest painters of the Florentine Renaissance. His Birth of Venus and La Primavera are often said to epitomize for modern viewers the spirit of the Renaissance. The son of a tanner, he was born Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, but he was given the nickname 'Botticelli', derived from the word 'botticello' meaning 'small wine cask'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCredit: Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510),\u003cem\u003e Venus (detail)\u003c\/em\u003e, c.1490. Oil on canvas. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, 1124. Photo: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie \/ Jörg P. Anders; Public Domain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExclusive to the Ashmolean Museum.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fine Print Service Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64398306541945,"sku":"ASI-6549","price":3.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/7566\/5197\/files\/Aphrodite_Poster_Botticelli.jpg?v=1787930371","url":"https:\/\/shop.ashmolean.org\/products\/aphrodite-exhibition-poster-botticelli-venus","provider":"Ashmolean Museum","version":"1.0","type":"link"}