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Venus and Mars (Botticelli)
{{Painting| image_file=Venus and Mars.jpg
| title=Venus and Mars
| artist=Sandro Botticelli
| year=1483
| type=Tempera on panel
| height=69
| width=173
| museum=National Gallery, London}}
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Given that its theme is love, this painting was possibly also commissioned on the occasion of a wedding. In this way it should exemplify the theories of the philosopher [[Marsilio Ficino]], according to whom the exortatotions to virtues are more welcomed if expressed through pleasant images.

[[Category:Botticelli paintings]]
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[[Category:Collections of the National Gallery, London]]

[[zh:维纳斯与战神]]