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Close-up portrait of the goddess Venus — AI art by @southamericanmyth

@southamericanmyth · 9/19/2026

Entry in the Guess the artist theme on BudgetPixel.

This is a easy one, one of my fav artist ;) ------------------- Visit my Open Prompt Blog for cool prompts https://budgetpixel.com/blog/open-prompt-gang-part-iii

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DavidP

🤣 was viewing your page and missed that title and fact it was in my theme. Oh dear. The artist has a familiar look but no, my knowledge of art and artists is actually pretty limited. I feel I'll recognise the name when you say so. So again trying to discover a guess through research . . . Botticelli?

winter_witch

Botticelli's Venus, such a brilliant recreation of her! 😍

DavidP

Indeed, but I have a sequence of checking and doing things and hadn't actually got to my Clan yet to specifically check the themes 🤣 As I said, I know the name but have no mental image of what the original paintings actually looked like. I really only know a few, which I think would be more commonly known to people with more pasisng interests

southamericanmyth

😂lmao isnt this your own theme? and indeed is Botticelli