Botticelli's painting "Spring" is one of the most amazing works of art

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The epoch of the Revival of culture, among the picturesque masterpieces of which Botticelli's painting "Spring" belongs, most clearly manifested itself in the north of Italy, in large cultural centers - Florence, Venice. It was here that new ideas appeared, based on the wisdom of the ancient Greeks, Plato, Pythagoras, Homer and Virgil, addressed to the earthly world of man, to his spiritual quest (contrary to the scholastic teachings of the theologians of the Middle Ages). It was the era of the birth of an amazing phenomenon, later called the Renaissance, or the Renaissance, which determined the development of philosophy, literature, painting and sculpture for several centuries ahead.

Sandro Botticelli was born in 1444 (1445) in Florence, where he lived all his life, the date of death refers to 1510 according to some sources, to 1515 according to others. His real name was Filipepi, and Botticelli was the name of a jeweler, for whom the future artist worked as an apprentice. Florence in those days was the center of new ideas, and Botticelli, as the greatest artist, could not stand aside, embodying the new philosophy of the early Renaissance in his amazing beauty andtouching canvases.

Botticelli's painting "Spring" was written in 1477 (1478) on wood with oil and tempera. It is known that one of the Medici ordered it as a wedding gift to his brother. Then the mention of it as part of the decoration of the Medici palace is found in 1638. And since 1815, the painting "Spring" by Botticelli has been one of the most valuable exhibits in the collection of paintings of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

The plot of the picture is deeply mythological, in each of its characters, in each pictorial element, one of the fundamental ideas of the Renaissance is encrypted - everything on Earth is subject to love, which has a divine origin and is the source of earthly rebirth, a symbol of spring. Compositionally, the canvas is divided into three parts. The central one is occupied by the image of Venus - the goddess of love, who blesses everything that happens around. An unchanging companion hovers above her - cupid blindfolded, with a bow and arrow. On the left side of the canvas is the mythological hero Mercury - the messenger of the gods, the teacher of wisdom, dispersing the clouds. There are also three graces - the retinue of the goddess Venus - circling in a dance. Holding hands tightly and creating an inextricable bond, they personify beauty, chastity and bliss - that which accompanies love in its highest manifestations.

On the right of Botticelli's painting "Spring" depicts a plot from the myth of the wind Zephyr and the nymph Chloris, whom he kidnapped and made his wife. The love awakened in Chloris turned her into the goddess of Spring, showering the earth with flowers. She is drawn here.same, next to the figures of Zephyr and Chloris, in colorful clothes with bright cornflowers, symbolizing good nature, with wreaths on the neck and head, in which daisies and buttercups are woven - signs of fidelity and we alth.

The amazing coloring of the work of Sandro Botticelli "Spring" is as if woven from fragrant flowers, with which her heroine generously showers the earth. Against the dark background of orange trees, the light figures of characters in delicate flowing clothes look especially attractive, their faces and appearance, despite their divine affiliation, are very earthly and touching. Botticelli's painting "Spring" is still one of the most amazing works of painting, not only of the Renaissance, but of all subsequent times.