Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, complete with hips, thighs and tummyPhotograph: Uffizi Gallery, Florence/CorbisAnd Botticelli's Venus updated by Anna Utopia GiordanoPhotograph: www.annautopiagiordano.itAngelo Bronzino's Venus, Cupid, Folly and TimePhotograph: National Gallery, London/Corbis
Bronzino's Venus loses her curves in her 21st-century makeoverPhotograph: www.annautopiagiordano.itAlexandre Cabanel: The Birth of VenusPhotograph: The Gallery Collection/CorbisCabanel's Venus is considerably lighterPhotograph: www.annautopiagiordano.itArtemisia Gentileschi: The Sleeping VenusPhotograph: Barbara Piasecka Johnson Foundation, New JerseyGentileschi's Venus still sleeps, but she's not quite the woman she used to bePhotograph: www.annautopiagiordano.itJean Auguste Dominique Ingres: Venus AnadyomenePhotograph: Bridgeman Art LibraryIngres' Venus is now more girlish, her proportions skewedPhotograph: www.annautopiagiordano.itVelazquez: The Toilet of Venus (AKA Venus and Cupid or the Rokeby Venus)Photograph: Hulton Archives/gettyWhere has Velazques's sumptuousness gone?Photograph: www.annautopiagiordano.itTitian: The Venus of UrbinoPhotograph: Uffizi Gallery, Florence/CorbisTitian's Venus reimagined by Anna Utopia GiordanoPhotograph: www.annautopiagiordano.it
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