Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Primavera
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Primavera
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Alternate Title:
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Allegory of Spring
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Image View:
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Detail, from right, lower bodies of the nymph Chloris, with the goddess Flora, Venus and one of the Three Graces
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Creator:
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Sandro Botticelli (Italian painter, ca. 1444-1510)
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Location:
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repository: Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) Inv. 1890 no.8360
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Location Note:
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Piazzale degli Uffizi
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GPS:
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+43.768639+11.255214
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Date:
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ca. 1478-1482 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Renaissance
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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painting
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Material:
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tempera grassa (egg-oil tempera) on wood panel
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Technique:
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painting and painting techniques
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Measurements:
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203 cm (height) x 314 cm (width)
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Description:
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The painting, depicting a group of mythological figures in a garden, is allegorical for the lush growth of Spring. Other meanings have also been explored. Among them, the work is sometimes cited as illustrating the ideal of Neoplatonic love. The painting itself carries no title and was first called La Primavera by Giorgio Vasari who saw it at Villa Castello, just outside Florence, in 1550. The history of the painting is not certainly known, though it seems to have been commissioned by one of the Medici family, perhaps for a wedding. It contains references to the Roman poets Ovid and Lucretius. The complex iconography, a form of carmen rusticum or farmer’s song, involves genuine philological knowledge as well as study of ancient literary models and this unique combination of qualities has led to the nearly universal consensus that it was devised by the poet Poliziano. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-BS-UG-PV-A11
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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