Question

This figure is offered a sword by a crouched god sitting by a shield in a painting its artist later adapted into a tapestry. This figure holds a bird and is framed by blue curtains in a painting displayed in the bathing suite of the Château de Bellevue. Flowers cover a statue of this figure in a painting that students legendarily threw bread crumbs at during the French Revolution. A large piece of fabric floats above this (15[1])figure surrounded by nymphs blowing (10[1])(*) conch (10[2])shells in a painting titled for this figure’s Triumph by (10[1])François Boucher [boo-SHAY]. A golden boat appears in the background of a painting in which people frolic on the island where this figure was (10[1])born; that Jean-Antoine Watteau painting is The Embarkation for Cythera. For 10 points, name this goddess whose birth from seafoam was painted by Sandro Botticelli. ■END■

ANSWER: Venus [or Aphrodite; accept The Triumph of Venus; accept The Toilette of Venus]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Austin GuoPrincetonNYU A7715
Jack RadoColumbia AColumbia B8210
Matthew SiffYaleGatherer8310
Eddie FuhrerLehigh ARutgers8310
Zoë KaperonisBardNYU B9310
Andre WongColumbia CNYU C11710

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2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024Y6100%17%0%89.17
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024Y4100%25%0%89.50
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024Y3100%0%33%120.67
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)03/09/2024Y7100%0%0%88.00
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)03/09/2024Y1100%0%0%99.00
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL)03/09/2024Y3100%0%33%108.67