Moving painting

Moving Painting
Real-world counterpart
The Birth of Venus
Year		Unknown
Artist		Sandro Botticelli
Main appearances
DnM DnM+ AC DnMe+ iQue WW CF NL NH
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  Symbolische schilderij

The Moving Painting is one of the pieces of artwork available in the Animal Crossing series games. This piece is based on the 1486 work "The Birth of Venus" by Italian painter Sandro Botticelli.

A work from the renaissance, Bottecelli's The Birth of Venus is interpreted as a 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.

Art details

Animal Crossing, Wild World, and City Folk

Item Name	Buy Price	Sell Price	Available From
Moving Painting	3,920	490	Crazy Redd's

In New Horizons

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	Unknown
Furniture size

Authenticity

In New Leaf, if the shell Venus stands on is upside down, the painting is a forgery.

In New Horizons, if there are no trees in the background in the upper right corner, the painting is a forgery.

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  The forgery as seen in New Horizons