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Primavera

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Tempera on panel by Sandro Botticelli, c.1477-1482. Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Large-scale mythological allegory of spring, depicting Venus, the Three Graces, Mercury, Flora, Chloris, Zephyr, and the Three Hours in a flowering orange grove. Central work in Florentine Renaissance Neoplatonism.

Notes

·The Primavera was probably commissioned for the Medici household, possibly for the villa of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici at Castello.
·The iconographic programme has been the subject of intense scholarly debate. Aby Warburg, Erwin Panofsky, Ernst Gombrich, and Liana de Girolami Cheney have all proposed competing interpretations.
·The orange grove setting evokes the Hesperides garden and echoes classical descriptions of the Gardens of Venus.
·Gombrich identified the programme as a Neoplatonic allegory devised by the humanist Marsilio Ficino for Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco.
·Warburg's reading focused on the Graces and their antique sources in gesture (Pathosformeln).
·The Three Graces — Chastity, Beauty, and Love — reflect the Neoplatonic triad of emanation, rapture, and return.