A chance discovery provided the author with the key to unlocking the centuries old enigma of Botticelli's "Primavera" - the famous Renaissance masterpiece painted for the private viewing of a Medici. Its pagan figures in a paradisical spring meadow illuminated the cryptic world of the Renaissance pagan revival. Botticelli's allegory emerged to address its personal message directly to a young Medici, one of the known world's richest young men. Botticelli's cleverly disguised message for Lorenzo Minore, is to be found on the right side of "La Primavera," where Chloris draws Zephyr's attention...
A chance discovery provided the author with the key to unlocking the centuries old enigma of Botticelli's "Primavera" - the famous Renaissance masterp...