Botticelli Primavera Analysis

Botticelli painted the Primavera for Lorenzo and the most annoying part about this all is that it is not the Lorenzo that comes to all of our minds at first it is his cousin Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco. The art piece itself represents the renaissance in many ways, the use of perspective, the nature used as the background, and realistic people all throughout the painting. The art piece has a lot of inner messages making it much more interesting. For me when I found out the hidden messages throughout the painting it made me feel part of a group or just an educated figure that nobody could touch. Primavera, in other words Spring, we see Mercury known as the god of the month of May. I came to a conclusion for the reasoning of putting him in the painting is …show more content…
In the middle we see Roman goddess Venus, with her in the middle Botticelli adds a reflection of the humanist interest in the classical world, she protects and cares for the institution of marriage. She is surrounded by laurel leaves adding the message of achievement, peace, and protection. Botticelli seems to love putting geometric shapes into his art, and we say that with Venus she has a halo. A circle around her and she is the center piece to draw the most attention out of all of the figures. No matter where you stand Venus is the center piece and is always looking at you, this device is started being used by many artists. I believe they are there to add a message for the marriage that it has everlasting achievement, peace, and protection. Above Venus we see her son cupid, I believe that he is there to just reinforce the marriage of love. Why he is pointed to the Three Graces I have no clue but my guess would be since it was a gift to Lorenzo it is the feminine virtues that have fallen in love and cupid shooting them with the love arrow for all aspects of a Lorenzo has fell in