The Birth of Aphrodite

The Birth of Aphrodite

The Birth of Aphrodite is a painting by the Italian artist of Renaissance, Sandro Botticelli. According to ancient Greek myth, when Saturn took the kingdom from his father, Uranus, he cut off his genitals and threw them into the sea. From the foam of the sea, the goddess Aphrodite emerged near Cyprus. painting, the goddess Aphrodite emerges from the water inside a shell which blown by Zephyrus and Aura towards the coast of Cyprus or Kythera.