Botticelli Paints Primavera
1478
In a Medici villa workroom, Sandro Botticelli completed a vast allegory of Venus, Mercury, the Three Graces, and Flora scattering roses across a spring meadow. It was pagan, philosophical, and quietly erotic. The painting, commissioned by a young Medici cousin, hangs now in the Uffizi still smelling faintly of Tuscan flowers.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.