Primavera

Primavera

First Spring

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allegory; deities; mythology (Classical); plants; botanical; rulers and leaders; Medici family; Three Graces; Venus; Zephyr; Chloris; Flora; Amor; Cupid; Mercury

The Primavera is the most important of all Botticelli’s poetic inventions, not only as a supreme work of art and the earliest and most ambitious of them, but also for historiographic reasons. The quality of writing devoted to it since Warburg’s initial study (1893) has ensured it a fundamental role in developing conceptions of the Renaissance.

Sandro Botticelli (Italian painter, ca. 1444-1510)

Description: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/

ca. 1478 (creation)

Fredlund, William

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tempera paint on panel

2.03 m (height) x 3.14 m (width)

painting (visual work)

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Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) inventario 1890, n. 8360; Piazzale degli Uffizi 6

Renaissance