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Choose a patron and a commission. Discuss the ways in which the commission represents the aims and characteristics of the Italian Renaissance. Include a discussion of iconography and humanism. Your answer should be several paragraphs in length.

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As you briefly choose a patron and a commission, I love Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus (1485-86), which was likely commissioned by the patron, Lorenzo de' Medici, who then "gave ...

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