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TitlePrimavera

Creator nameBotticelli, Sandro

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1480

Object typePainting

MaterialsTempera grassa on wood

Dimensions79 7/8 x 123 5/8 in. (203 x 314 cm)

LocationGalleria degli Uffizi, Florence

https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/botticelli-spring

Accession number1890 no. 8360

SubjectsAllegoriesSpring in artPainting, Renaissance--ItalyMythology, Roman, in art

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1. Poetry as Painting: The Classical Materia of Botticelli’s Invention for the Primavera

Charles Dempsey

Description: The Portrayal of Love: Botticelli’s Primavera and Humanist Culture at the Time...

The Portrayal of Love: Botticelli’s Primavera and Humanist Culture at the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent

~THE EARLIEST description of Botticelli’s Primavera (plate...

Author

Charles Dempsey

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.20-49

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Chapter subject tags:Painting, Renaissance--ItalyBotticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 1445-1510. SpringLove poetry, ItalianNeoplatonismMedici, Lorenzo de', 1449-1492Poetry, AncientHumanism

1. The Fifteenth Century: From Egg to Oil, from Gothic to Humanist Values

Marcia B. Hall

The Power of Color: Five Centuries of European Painting

~~At the dawn of the Quattrocento, a Gothic coloring system matched the Christian culture. Abundant gold symbolized the celestial sphere; a white gesso ground enhanced the brilliance of the pigments bound in egg, which were used in their pure form to maximize their luminosity. As the humanist view gradually gained ground, Christian...

Author

Marcia B. Hall

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.17-57

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00228.002

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Chapter subject tags:Painting--TechniquePainting, Renaissance--ItalyChristian art and symbolism--Renaissance, 1450-1600History of Biblical events--ArtArt--Marketing

Part III: Love, Lust, and Artifice

Paul Barolsky

Ovid and the Metamorphoses of Modern Art from Botticelli to Picasso

Before proceeding to an appreciation of Correggio’s painting, let us recall that the picture was part of a suite of four paintings of the “Loves of Jupiter” made for the Duke of Mantua. The others are Leda and the Swan (Berlin), Danae (Rome), and the Rape of Ganymede (Vienna)...

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Paul Barolsky

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.47-79

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00090.005

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Chapter subject tags:Ovid, 43 B.C.–17 A.D. or 18 A.D. MetamorphosesLove in artCorreggio, 1489?–1534Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577–1640

4. Seeing and Being Seen

Patricia Lee Rubin

Images and Identity in Fifteenth-Century Florence

In October 1462 Francesco Sforza, the Duke of Milan, ordered three dozen pairs of eyeglasses from Florence, “because there are many who request of us eyeglasses that are made there … since it is reputed that they are made more perfectly [there] than in any other place in Italy” He had previously ordered eighteen pairs, and soon after he died his successor, Galeazzo Maria, ordered fifty more, “perfectly made according to the ages specified in the list.” The picture of the bespectacled court with …

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Patricia Lee Rubin

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.93-133

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00066.007

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Chapter subject tags:Painting, Renaissance--ItalyBattistero di San Giovanni (Florence, Italy)Masaccio, 1401-1428Castagno, Andrea del, 1423-1457Botticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 1445-1510. SpringSculpture, Renaissance--ItalyCappella Sassetti (Santa Trinità (Church : Florence, Italy))Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519Donatello, 1386?-1466Florence (Italy)--HistoryPainting, Renaissance--Italy--FlorenceSculpture, Renaissance--Italy--Florence

VIII. From Springer to Warburg

Michael Podro

The Critical Historians of Art

THE HISTORIANS whose writings were examined in the previous chapters—Riegl and Wölfflin—were explicitly concerned with the construction of critical systems. This chapter is about two historians who were not. Anton Springer and Aby Warburg represent a continuation of the tradition of Rumohr, both in their concern with philological detail and their integration of the study of art within the complexities of social life. …

Author

Michael Podro

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.152-177

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00131.012

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Chapter subject tags:Art criticismArt--HistoriographySpringer, A. (Anton), 1825-1891Warburg, Aby, 1866-1929Art and society

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