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botticelli

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'fine' is the definition.
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(Other definitions for botticelli that I've seen before include "Italian painter, 1445-1510" , "Florentine C fifteen-sixteen artist (Primavera)" , "who painted?" , "Famous Italian" , "Italian painter of The Birth of Venus, d. 1510" .)

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