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 (-5[1])Revolution. A large piece of fabric floats above this figure surrounded by nymphs blowing (*) conch shells (10[1])in a painting titled for this figure’s Triumph by François Boucher [boo-SHAY]. A golden boat appears in the background (10[1])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 (10[1])by Sandro Botticelli. ■END■

ANSWER: Venus [or Aphrodite; accept The Triumph of Venus; accept The Toilette of Venus]
<Fine Arts - Visual Fine Arts>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Gabe ForrestSquidward Community CollegeSIUE68-5
Collin NadarajahWUSTL CWUSTL J8410
Amith PunyalaWUSTL ATruman State10310
Logan MathisSIUESquidward Community College13910

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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