Company CEO Purchases Copy of Boticelli’s Venus for $6.5 Million

BY VIC SHAYNE — MooseBusiness is extremely proud to announce that our president, Meeve Adams just departed from Florence, Italy, where he handed over $6.5 million for a personally signed copy of Boticelli’s Venus. The print was signed by Meeve Adams himself during a press conference in his hotel room, July 4th.

“This is really something,” announced Meeve. “I was a little surprised nobody in Florence was celebrating the Fourth, but that’s okay, at least I got what I came here for. I’m more than pleased that I was able to obtain this copy of the Venus. It was the last one left in the gift shop, too, which I found quite fortuitous.  I signed it right away as a precaution to show proof of ownership so that, God forbid, if anything happens to it before I can get it framed back in Miami, the authorities will know it belongs to me.”

The actual name of the painting, whose copy Mr. Adams now has in his possession as he bicycles across the Alps, is The Birth of Venus. It was painted by Sandro Botticelli and depicts the goddess Venus who has emerged from the sea as a full grown woman. The model who served as the inspiration for Venus is speculated to have been the lover of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de Medici who commissioned the artist in the late 1470s. The original work hangs in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

Meeve Adams said, “The original is very nice, but we measured it in the museum and discovered that it’s a little too big for our living room. This goes to show how modern technology such as scanners, computers and air travel, allow somebody like me to come across the big blue sea and get a great deal on a masterful work of art. I try to teach my children to appreciate the finer things in life. For instance, when we all took our summer vacation last year to Washington DC, I bought all the kids an Abe Lincoln top hat.”