Botticelli

A detailed Summary of Botticelli

Botticelli, Sandro. Primavera. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Mark Harden's

Artchive. By Mark Harden. Available http://www.artchive.com/ftp_site.html.

Botticelli's masterpiece, Primavera, depicts a scene of slow moving grace in what

appears to be a mythical garden. The actual subject of this masterpiece is unknown, but

there are volumes of ideas concerning the purposes and meanings the painting could have.

Despite the confusion the painting is widely admired and revered as Botticelli's finest

works. The scene appears to be a spring morning, with a pale light penetrating the straight

vertical trees in the background. The trees appear to bear golden apples, a possible

reference to the myth of Venus and the golden apple which seems feasible considering

Botticelli lived from 1445 to 1510 in Florence. Despite his individuality as a

Chloris and is dressed in blossoms as she scatters flowers over the ground. In the center is

woods. The ground does not seem to be present but flowers are scattered on top of it

opposite direction from Zephyr's gusts. The figure on the extreme left is that of Mercury,

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