The Portrayal of Love: Botticelli's "primavera" and Humanist Culture at the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent

by Charles Dempsey

Book Overview

Widely acknowledged as a prime manifestation of Florentine humanist culture under Lorenzo de'Medici, Botticelli's Primavera cannot be fully interpreted without considering the poetics that expressed the Laurentian cultural program and, in turn, the Renaissance itself. In this analysis Charles Dempsey examines the poetry written by Lorenzo and his literary clients in order to give definition to the cultural context in which the Primavera was created...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691032076
• ISBN13: 9780691032078
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.