It turns out that Botticelli for the first time in the history of Christian art used the head of the nude to another picture to create an image of Madonna.
Director of the London National Gallery Kenneth Clark wrote: "The same head of Botticelli used for his Madonnas, and this is the beginning of even more shocking fact is, if you think the summit of the human mind, shining in a pure atmosphere of the imagination. The fact that the head of our Christian Goddess, with all her ability to understand the sensitive and subtle inner life may be stuck on the naked body and thus does not arise any dissonance, and is the supreme triumph of the Heavenly Venus. "
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