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Sandro Botticelli's Primavera
Behind the Painting: Sandro Botticelli’s Primavera Time has arrived upon the year of 1482, the Early Renaissance, and a great artist, Botticelli, is in the stages of creating the largest Greek mythology painting, Primavera or also known as the Allegory of Spring. On the canvas characters such as Zephyr: the God of Wind, Flora/Chloris: the Goddess of Flowers and Blossoms as well as her former nymph counterpart, Venus: the Goddess of Love and Beauty, the Three Graces, Cupid: God of Love, and last but not least Mercury: the Messenger of Gods are coming together for “…Spring closing/The white doors of winter…” (Bolaños, Pg 396, Line 25-26). The painting is eventually going to be a gift for a bride that is going to become a part of the Medici family residing in Florence, Italy. In fact, the foundation of marriage and love are Sandro’s main inspiration for Primavera …show more content…
Botticelli focused on the beauty of the body as well as natural landscape, the whole point of neo-Platonism was to transpire a single source from which all existence emanates and with which an individual soul can be mystically united. Hence the reason that the institution of marriage is one of life’s greatest achievement between a couple; however this may not always be the situation since families make the decision for their children to go through an arranged marriage. Such was the case for the bride and groom for the Medici wedding. In order to relay the harshness of an arranged marriage that contains no form of love, Botticelli includes in the painting Chloris and Zephyr’s story, the God of Wind went to the full extreme of raping Chloris but as an apology for his brutality he gave her the power to transform into the Goddess Flora. In the end demonstrating that a drop of hope and love may be able to overcome and bloom from within the inescapable realm of an arranged
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