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Description: | Botticelli's Primavera of 1482, from which this extract is copied, was probably commissioned by Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici for his Florentine Palace at the time of his wedding. Though Vasari, on first seeing the work, is reputed to have described it as ''Venus as a symbol of Spring, being adorned with flowers by the Graces'', the complex allegorical implications of the work are still being debated by scholars today, although most agree that the painting was inspired by the classical texts of Ovid and Lucretius, and by certain verses by Agnolo Poliziano. | Subjects: | mythology; figure; landscape | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Botticelli, Sandro (Italian painter and draftsman, born 1444 or 1445, died 1510) Æ After | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8412... | Go to resource |
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