Mix-up: Squalo balena nel mare Flora the Metropolitan Museum of Art

the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

The "Portrait of a Young Woman" is a painting by the famous Italian painter Sandro Botticelli made in 1480

going beyond

until he drowned

Mix-up: Squalo balena nel mare Flora the Metropolitan Museum of ArtI bring this image to you because the whale shark is so big it looks like an ancient god of the sea, with all those bright spots on its back. At the same time it is gentle, and swims on the surface but also in the depths of the ocean. What better symbol of freedom? This fascinating image is of a whale shark in the Maldives. Printed on one sheet of an ancient Italian geography book from a century ago. Frame not included