The birth of venus nascita di venere is a high quality giclee print of the original oil painting by sandro botticelli the painting depicts the roman goddess venus emerging from the sea in a shell she is attended by a lady on the shore who is offering her a cloak and blown by a zephyr on the left it has been suggested sandro botticelli was commission to product the painting by the medici family a power house behind the creation of renaissance art in italy you can see the original at the uf