Botticelli's " Primavera " : A Botanical Interpretation Including Astrology, Alchemy and the Medici (Arte E Archeologia)
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Reviews
This exceptionally well-researched work by Mirella Levi-D'Ancona undertakes to explore the applied knowledge of plants representing a botanical symbolic language used by Sandro Botticelli which helps him to demonstrate the philosophical commitments deriving from Marsilio Ficino, Angelo Poliziano, and members of the Vespucci and de'Medici families (among others) with the circle of Neo-Platonist thinkers in Florence. The use of painting as a didactic and philosophical tool is merely one of the significant revelatory advantages of this compelling work...Of inestimable value to students of the quattrocento and the Renaissance as a whole....
