Botticelli's Venus conceals
anatomical details of life, an Italian expert in medicine in art
says.
Surgeon Davide Lazzeri says the cloak held by the goddess of
spring Flora, in the act of covering the nude Venus, conceals a
sketch of a hidden lung with a reproduction of the anatomical
details and colour of the organ.
Inspired by the neoPlatonic philosophy in vogue at the Medici
court, the symbol represents the allegory of the cycle of life
generated by the divine breath, Lazzeri says.
His study appears in Acta Biomedica.
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