” the world’s most priceless art from the birth of Western Civilization. Destroy the vandals!”
Birth of Venus has to be one of the 10 best paintings ever IMHO. Would be horrible should anything happen to it.
The model for Venus was Simonetta Vespucci (maybe barely 16 at the time of the painting). She was a relative of Amerigo Vespucci after whom the Americas are named.
I would'nt be surprised if some leftist nutcase got through with a hammer and knocked his penis off, and declared david was trans.
I’m going to Florence next month. This is on my short list of things to see. I’ll only be there one day.