Inspired by classical art of Botticelli, he used picture of ancient writing "Venus Anadyomene by Apelles ; Anadyomene means coming up from the water, which he used as The Birth Of Venus. It also conveys the mood not only in striking the sea, even though she is on a single shell, but it also has to help people pour on is whether a woman removing her clothes, blanket, and then there are men who have come to help her from the water, The seashell she stands on was a symbol in classical antiquity for a woman's vulva. Thought to be based in part on the Venus de' Medici, an ancient Greek marble sculpture of Aphrodite.