Botticelli

Birth of Venus, Primavera

The painter of mythological grace. His Birth of Venus and Primavera revived pagan subjects with a linear elegance and dreamlike beauty that remains unique — no one before or since has drawn the human figure with quite this combination of precision and poetry.

Key works

• Birth of Venus~1485— Classical mythology reborn
  Uffizi, Florence
• Primavera~1482— An allegory of spring
  Uffizi, Florence

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