High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venus Anadyomene (Greek - literally Venus rising from the sea), is a c.1520 oil painting by Titian, depicting Venus rising from the sea and wringing her hair, either after bathing or after her birth. Venus, said to have been born from a shell, is identified by the shell at bottom left. It is smaller than usual in birth of Venus scenes, such as Botticelli`s, and is likely just an identifier rather than a sure sign that this is a birth of Venus scene.