Spring by Sandro Botticelli
The Medici family in Florence is the archetypal princely family who felt responsible for patronage.
There were some very famous Medicis: Cosimo the Elder, Lorenzo the Magnificent,
but also Lorenzo di Pia Francesco, who was one of the greatest patrons in Florence
in the 15th century, who had a marvelous painter working for him: Sandro Botticelli.
Botticelli had a humanist named Politian dictate a philosophical program --
hermetic, magical, genealogical and heroic -- in the form of a great song.
This great song became a double painting, which is, still today, among the best-known in the world.
The Birth of Venus and the famous Spring are the exact product of this ideal geometry.
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Florence under the Medicis is a valued example of this famous triangle, but all Italian cities of the 15th century benefitted from the same status.
- Ferrara with the Este family
- Milan with the Sforza family
- Urbino with the famous Montefeltres
- Mantua with the Gonzagues family
- Rome with the Popes.
Jacques-Edouard Berger's seminars - lectures THE ENIGMAS OF PAINTING: Sandro Botticelli
