Now, a correction. On Tuesday, we ran a story about the famous Renaissance painting the "Birth Of Venus" by Sandro Boticelli. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: You know the image - a nude Venus, head tilted ...

Take Aphrodite, or Venus if you prefer her Roman clone. This Greek goddess of love sprang to life from the innards of a scallop shell, which opened up like a flower to reveal the budding beauty ...

NPR offers a correction to a piece earlier in the week in which we referred to the mollusk in the famous "Birth of Venus" painting by Botticelli as a clam shell.