And nowhere elicits lovelorn sighs more than the Uffizi, with emblems of love like Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" gracing its walls.

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You don't talk about that bit in Botticelli's Primavera where the Medici prince reaches up for the orange or that bit in the Birth of Venus where her neck would look wrong if her shoulders weren't wrong too.

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