Now, a correction. On Tuesday, we ran a story about the famous Renaissance painting the "Birth Of Venus" by Sandro Boticelli. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: You know the image - a nude Venus, head tilted, red ...
The Renaissance palette of blues and greens, rippling sea, welcoming figures, and open scallop shell nearly touching the shore — Alessandro Botticelli’s 1480s painting of Venus immediately springs to ...
NPR offers a correction to a piece earlier in the week in which we referred to the mollusk in the famous "Birth of Venus" painting by Botticelli as a clam shell. Now, a correction. On Tuesday, we ran ...