"Unauthorized use of Botticelli's Birth of Venus":
that's the motivation of the lawsuit started by the Uffizi
Museum in Florence, one of the best know museums in the world,
against the famous fashion stylist Jean Paul Gaultier.
The fashion house unveiled its new ready-to-wear collection,
called Les Musée, in April this year, showing some pieces
(scarfs, trousers, shirts, tops) reproducing The birth of
Venus, famous work by Botticelli painted around 1485.
Photo source: JP Gaultier Instagram official
account
In this capsule collection, Jean Paul Gaultier used not only
Botticelli's work, but also other images of well-known
art: The creation of Adam, a fresco by Michelangelo
painted in the Sistine Chapel in Rome between 1508 and 1512, and
the Three Graces by Rubens, kept in the Museo
Nacional del Prado in Madrid.
