La Primavera by Botticelli. Sandro Botticelli created Primavera painting at the beginning of 1482. Botticelli did not name Primavera nor leave any details about its commission. Sandro Botticelli’s Primavera is the painting which sparked my interest in Art History so I felt it fitting that this was the first featured masterpiece on my website. Primavera is one of Botticelli’s most outstanding works. Botticelli chose to center his mythology work on what the Medici family requested, especially the younger generation. This undeniable masterpiece of the Early Renaissance is rendered in a Gothic style of the early Middle Ages. Primavera, which also is known as “The Allegory of Spring” was painted for the powerful banking family – to be accurate, for Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici, a cousin of a famous Lorenzo the Magnificent. After writing a post about Hannibal Lecter’s favourite art supplies, I decided to show you more deeply information about Primavera artwork by Sandro Botticelli, and highlight 11 Interesting Facts About Botticelli’s Primavera which was often mentioned in the TV-series. The Botticelli's Primavera was created in early 1482. It is this very confusion that leaves us at complete liberty to interpret it ourselves, if very vaguely, which perhaps suits Botticelli’s mysterious masterpiece better than anything else. La Primavera - Botticelli A Plethora of Interpretations In a recent book devoted to understanding the background to La primavera, Dempsey puts forward three broad themes which bound the range of current interpretations. 1. Analysis of Sandro Botticelli’s Primavera It is seen in the middle arch, under the tiny blindfolded cupid, towards the off center area of the artwork the image of the Goddess of love: Venus (Barolsky, 2000). These suggest the painting is either a metaphor for civic celebration and weddings or a Neo-Platonic meditation on beauty or a representation… Sandro Botticelli’s Primavera is one of art history’s most famous and elusive allegories of the season. But when trying to explain the enigma of the scene, the interpretations become astoundingly foggy. He was the first to create large scale mythology scenes, some based on historical accounts of mythology. The actual subject of this masterpiece is unknown, but there are volumes of ideas concerning the purposes and meanings the painting could have. Primavera (Allegory of Spring) As mythology paintings entered into Renaissance art, Botticelli broke new ground with his work. This wonderful and famous work of art by great Botticelli was painted for Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici, a cousin of Lorenzo the Magnificent.The Medici was a very important Florentine banking family and later royal house of Tuscany. For this analysis of Primavera I have spent a considerable amount of time researching the piece in order to provide all of the information, which I feel is necessary to fully understand and appreciate the painting. The Spring (La Primavera) by Sandro Botticelli was created between 1477- 1482.The history behind the painting is unclear but is suspected to have been commissioned by the Medici family. Hannibal was inspired by this masterpiece. It was commissioned by a banker. It was the art historian, Giorgio Vasari, who named it "Primavera" after seeing it hanging in the Villa Castella in 1550. The artwork shows greatly the aesthetic appeal and the creative heritage of Sandro Botticelli’s poetic art called Primavera (Figure 1). Sandro Botticelli, Primavera, c. 1482, Uffizi Gallery, Florence. The work is done in a manner that disregards the perspective. Botticelli’s masterpiece, Primavera, depicts a scene of slow moving grace in what appears to be a mythical garden. 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