Moving painting

Moving painting
The moving painting in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Real-world counterpart
The Birth of Venus
Year		c. 1484–1486
Artist		Sandro Botticelli
Main appearances
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Name in other languages  きれいなめいが  动人的名画  Toile émouvante  Cuadro alegórico  Quadro colorato  Трогательная картина  예쁜 명화  動人的名畫  Toile émouvante  Cuadro alegórico  Schöngemälde  Symbolisch schilderij

The moving painting is a painting in the Animal Crossing series introduced in Doubutsu no Mori. It is based on Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Venus.

Art details

In Animal Crossing

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Buy price	1,960 Bells
Sell price	490 Bells
Obtain from	Crazy Redd's
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In Wild World

Buy price	3,920 Bells
Sell price	490 Bells
Obtain from	Redd
Authenticity	This painting can be a forgery.
Furniture size

In City Folk

Buy price	3,920 Bells
Sell price	490 Bells
Obtain from	Crazy Redd's
Authenticity	This painting can be a forgery.
Furniture size

In New Leaf

Real artwork

Forgery

The Birth of Venus
Artist: Sandro Botticelli
Made around 1485
Tempura on canvas

Museum description	This painting depicts the Roman goddess of love, Venus, standing in a shell after emerging from the sea.
Buy price	3,920 Bells
Sell price	490 Bells
Obtain from	Redd's Gallery
Authenticity	In the forgery, the shell beneath Venus is upside down. If the shell is shown in its upward position, it is genuine.
Furniture size

In New Horizons

While initially absent from Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the moving painting was added in the 1.2.0 April Free Update.

Real artwork

Forgery

The Birth of Venus
Sandro Botticelli, circa 1485
Tempura on canvas

Museum description	A painting of the Roman goddess Venus riding a scallop shell after being born in the ocean. The name Botticelli is said to actually be a nickname given to the artist's brother, who was built like a barrel. Why this nickname was transferred between siblings is a mystery lost to the ages.
Buy price	4,980 Bells
Sell price	1,245 Bells
Obtain from	Jolly Redd's Treasure Trawler
Authenticity	In the forgery, the sky behind the right-hand woman is clearly visible and there are flowers floating about. If there are trees behind her, it is genuine.
Furniture size

Gallery

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  The forgery as seen in New Horizons

Real-world information

The Birth of Venus

A work from the renaissance, Bottecelli's The Birth of Venus is interpreted as an homage to the female form. The focus of the painting is Venus, the Roman Goddess of beauty and love. Blown to the shore by Zephyrus, the god of the west wind, Venus is greeted by one of the Horae, a Goddess of the Seasons, who gives her a flowered cloak. Created in Florence, it remains there to this day, in the Uffizi Gallery.