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Artists sea shell coloring pages:

• Botticelli's Birth of Venus has Venus rising from the foam in a scallop shell. In the ancient world of the Mediterranean, this theme of Aphrodite's (Venus's) arising birth from the shell repeats itself in figurines and wall paintings.
• Pierodella Francesca incorporated the scallop shell Pecten jacobaeus L. into his sea shell coloring pages art.

• Benvenuto Cellini's "The Jewel Chalice" . This precious work of art is a golden shell, exquisitely chased and adorned with jewels. Other artists who included shells in their work are: Ensor, Rodin, and Brusselmans.
Sculptors sea shell coloring pages:

• Bernini made the famous Triton (designed after the Charonia or trumpet shell) fountain in Rome.

• Michelangelo, and many other sculptors and artists, (famous or not!) used shell images and forms in their works - why? Because shells are beautiful!!

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