Tag: medici

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• Primavera Analysis: Figure by Figure, Right to Left

  Published: 29 Apr, 2026

  • 17 min read

  Primavera 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.

• The Adoration of the Magi: Botticelli, the Medici, and the Self-Portrait at the Right

  Published: 28 Apr, 2026

  • 14 min read

  The 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.

• La Primavera by Sandro Botticelli: The Season, the Story, the Patron

  Published: 28 Apr, 2026

  • 15 min read

  Primavera 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.