Tag: botticelli
All the articles with the tag "botticelli".
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Primavera Analysis: Figure by Figure, Right to Left
Published:• 17 min readPrimavera by Botticelli has nine figures. Here is a figure-by-figure decode of each one — Mercury, the Three Graces, Venus, Cupid, Flora, Chloris, Zephyr — read right to left, the way the painting wants to be read.
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The Birth of Venus at the Uffizi: Where to Find It, How to See It
Published:• 12 min readThe Birth of Venus is in the Uffizi, in Florence, in the Botticelli room. Here is exactly where to find it, what is on the walls around it, and how to actually see it through the crowd.
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The Adoration of the Magi: Botticelli, the Medici, and the Self-Portrait at the Right
Published:• 14 min readThe Adoration of the Magi by Sandro Botticelli is a Bible scene that is also a Medici family portrait. Cosimo, Piero, Giovanni, Lorenzo, Giuliano — and Botticelli himself, looking out from the right.
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La Primavera by Sandro Botticelli: The Season, the Story, the Patron
Published:• 15 min readPrimavera by Sandro Botticelli is a nine-figure dance in an orange grove painted around 1482, almost certainly for a young Medici cousin. Here is the story it tells, the season it sets, and why it has been argued over for five hundred years.
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The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli: Meaning, Mythology, and Why It Stops You
Published:• 17 min readThe Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli is a goddess on a shell painted around 1485, the first life-size female nude in Western art since antiquity. Here is what it means and why it stops you.