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painting by Botticelli

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  • Sandro Botticelli: Birth of Venus
    In Sandro Botticelli: Late works of Sandro Botticelli

    …Annunciation (1490) and the small Pietà (late 1490s) now in the Poldi-Pezzoli Museum. After the early 1490s his style changed markedly; the paintings are smaller in scale, the figures in them are now slender to the point of idiosyncrasy, and the painter, by accentuating their gestures and expressions, concentrates attention…

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