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A large, bust-length portrait from that year, of a green-skinned woman of Botticellian perfection and Picabian spookiness, is unlike anything that preceded it.

From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2014

Four Botticellian wood sprites, who could also sing divinely, led the promenade performance from tree to tree.

From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2010

"This is the best incentive I have to stay slim," cried a Botticellian Berkeley coed as she raced into the combing breakers.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Repentance slowly follows, in black mourning habit; while naked Truth–the Botticellian Venus in another form–raises her hand in appeal to the heavens.

From The Story of Florence by Gardner, Edmund G.

It is the sort of thing Mr Gilbert's 'rapturous maidens' might have said: 'How Botticellian!

From Tales of St. Austin's by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)