Sandro Botticelli's 'Primavera' ('Spring', c. 1482), painted for the Medici villa of Castello, gathers nine mythological figures in an orange grove: Venus presides at the centre, flanked by the three Graces, Mercury, Flora (the blossoming spring goddess), the nymph Chloris, the wind Zephyr, and Cupid. One of the most philosophically dense and formally graceful works of the Florentine Renaissance, it is the companion piece to 'The Birth of Venus' and a central masterpiece of the Uffizi Gallery.

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Galleria degli Uffizi

Florence, Italy

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