Article: The Portrayal of Love: Botticelli's 'Primavera' and Humanist Culture at the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent.

Charles Dempsey's book is magnificent, whether Lorenzo and his time were. This work is the most thoughtful and thorough examination of a stunning and gorgeous ikon of the Laurentian Renaissance. Its meaning and derivation have been studied and argued over for the past one hundred years by the most potent palladins of the Warburgian school of cultural history beginning with Aby Warburg himself in 1893. Warburg searched the origins of Botticelli's "Spring" and some of his other mythological paintings in Roman (and Hellenic) mythological poetry and in the vernacular Tuscan poetry arising out of the vicissitudes of the Medici court. Differing importantly among themselves, E. H. ...

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