Primavera

Artist
Sandro Botticelli
Year
c. 1482
Medium
Tempera on panel
Public Domain Wikimedia Commons

Primavera (Spring) is Sandro Botticelli’s celebrated allegory of the season, painted for the Medici family in Florence. In a flowering orange grove, Venus presides over a graceful company that includes the Three Graces, Mercury, Chloris, Flora, and a blindfolded Cupid. Rich in humanist and Neoplatonic symbolism, it remains one of the most studied and beloved paintings of the Early Renaissance.