Under the Guise of Spring : The message hidden in Botticelli's Primavera

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Under the Guise of Spring : The message hidden in Botticelli's Primavera / Eugene Lane-Spollen. - First published. - London : Shepheard-Walwyn, 2014. - XII, 207 stron : ilustracje ; 25 cm + składana reprodukcja.

Author

Lane-Spollen Eugene. Autor

Form of Work

Książki Publikacje naukowe

Subject

Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510). Medyceusze (ród). Malarstwo włoskie Malarstwo renesansowe Analiza dzieła sztuki Sztuka i religia Chrześcijaństwo i sztuka Symbolika (w sztuce)

Genre/Form

Monografia

Czytelnia

Malarstwo

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Bibliography, etc. note

Indeks.

Bibliografia strony 193-200.

Summary, etc.

Streszczenie: A chance discovery provided the author with the key to unlocking the centuries old enigma of Botticelli's Primavera - the famous Renaissance masterpiece painted for the private viewing of a Medici. Its pagan figures in a paradisical spring meadow illuminated the cryptic world of the Renaissance pagan revival. Botticelli's allegory emerged to address its personal message directly to a young Medici, one of the known world's richest young men. Botticelli's cleverly disguised message for Lorenzo Minore, is to be found on the right side of La Primavera, where Chloris draws Zephyr's attention to it. This book is extremely well researched and beautifully produced with eighty color plates, a full pullout reproduction of La Primavera and numerous details from this and other Renaissance paintings. Lane-Spollen clearly explains the fusion of Christian and pagan imagery which is reflected in La Primavera, placing it in the wider context of the history, religion and politics of the period.