| THEBIRTHOFVENUS | Painting by Sandro Botticelli depicting the Roman goddess of love on a scallop shell (3,5,2,5) |
| BIRTHOFVENUS | The ____, painting by Sandro Botticelli held in the Uffizi Gallery (5,2,5) |
| SCALLOP | - shell; an item depicted by Sandro Botticelli in his painting The Birth of Venus (7) |
| VENUS | The Greek deity whose birth was pictured by Sandro Botticelli c. 1485 (5) |
| EYE | One of up to 200(!) on a scallop |
| CORAL | The orange-pink bit on a scallop |
| SHELLOIL | Its logo is based on a scallop |
| BOTTICELLI | Nickname of the Italian Renaissance artist whose painting The Birth of Venus depicts the Roman goddess of love and beauty arriving on land in a giant scallop shell (10) |
| NICHE | In classical architecture, a recess in a wall for a statue, often with a semicircular apex with fluting in the form of a scallop shell (5) |
| SANTIAGODECOMPOSTELA | The probable destination of a hiker with a scallop shell on their rucksack |
| MADELEINE | Small French sponge cake traditionally of genoise batter baked in the shape of a scallop shell (9) |
| PRIMAVERA | Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli is held to have announced the arrival of spring in this famous painting |
| VENUSBERG | Setting of Richard Wagner's 1845 opera Tannhauser, in which the titular character meets the Roman goddess of love (9) |
| CLAIM | Maintain a scallop-shell surrounds one (5) |
| ORANGE | Colour of the part of a scallop containing the eggs (6) |
| VENOUS | Concerning veins and sounding like the Roman goddess of love (6) |
| APHRODITE | With symbols including golden apples, roses, scallop shells, pearls and doves, the Greek goddess of love (9) |
| ONTHENIGHT | "I saw the light ... that I passed by her window; I saw the flickering shadows of love on her blind, |
| NATIVITY | Mystical ___; Sandro Botticelli painting in the National Gallery (8) |
| FLORENCE | Riverside city and capital of Tuscany, site of the Uffizi Gallery, where Sandro Botticelli's The Bir |
