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 figure surrounded by nymphs blowing (*) conch shells in a painting titled for this figure’s Triumph by 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 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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