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Botticelli's Venus recreated in bid to raise awareness of breast cancer

A giant collaborative version of Botticelli's Birth of Venus has been created to raise awareness of breast cancer.

Everyone Is Art features the faces of 1,096 men and women from all over Europe. The number 1,096 was chosen because this is the average number of women diagnosed with breast cancer in Europe each day.

The images were all uploaded to www.morethantalk.eu, a website created as a centre of support for people affected by breast cancer....

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)