Destination Venus: how Botticelli became a brand

From saucer-eyed Manga cartoons to a bullet-breasted pin up, from the pre-Raphaelites to Lady Gaga’s D&G dress, a new V&A exhibition reveals how generations of artists have repurposed Botticelli’s ideal of female beautyOn entering Botticelli Reimagined when it opens this week you could be forgiven for thinking that you’ve come to the wrong place. Rather than communing with a series of sad-eyed Madonnas, gently curving Venuses and light-as-puff angels, what you will actu