Artist Matt Johnson, whose work "Bad Apple" was featured on Neatorama previously, told us of his newest painting: The Birth of Peach, inspired by William-Adolphe Bouguereau's classic masterpiece The Birth of Venus. Love the turtles putti (or cherubim, your pick) - Thanks Matt!
Lots more like these: http://www.bouguereau.net/idols/naissance-de-venus-birth-of-venus-1879/
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Ah, Bouguereau. In him the Western artistic tradition reached its apex.
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