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Here, in one of the most quietly radical paintings of the Renaissance, Botticelli gives us a world in temporary equilibrium. Venus and Mars, painted around 1485, stretches like a half-remembered dream. She alert and composed; he utterly vanquished by sleep.
The god of war, undone not by a sword but by love.
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