Was the Primavera Based Off of the Fasti? Over the course of reading various articles about the Primavera by Botticelli I have realized that there are many similar view points. However, there are many different ways that they are executed. In my previous paper on the Primavera I saw how Zirpolo could view the painting in a feminist style. With both of the articles that I am writing about in this articles there is a connection between a series of documents as well as iconography. While it is interesting to see two separate viewpoints, I think it is as interesting to see how two different people compare using the same resources. Both “Talking with Goddesses: Ovid’s Fasti and Botticelli’ Primavera” by Charles Burroughs and “Botticelli’s Primavera, Angelo Poliziano, and Ovid’s Fasti” by Lew Andrews use the same set of books, the Fasti, and try to express what the mean differently.
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Andrews goes into more detail off the bat. He explains every character in the painting in the same amount of detail, and he connects the painting with the Fasti far better than Burroughs did in his article. He explains the connection of Mercury to the month of May, he explains the context of the Graces, and a better idea of how Flora came to be. Andrews also goes I to explain how, “Poliziano’s surviving poems have reminded scholars of Botticelli’s painting” (Andrews 80). Afterwards he later goes on to explain how this is what helped aid the Fasti in unfolding the truth behind the Primavera. These poems weren’t eve addressed in Boroughs’ article, and this seems odd considering how much emphasis Andrews uses to show the importance of these poems. Then after that he goes on to explain the importance of the patron, who was meant to be Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco, and what the story behind the Primavera
In an article titled …show more content…
Andrews goes into more detail off the bat. He explains every character in the painting in the same amount of detail, and he connects the painting with the Fasti far better than Burroughs did in his article. He explains the connection of Mercury to the month of May, he explains the context of the Graces, and a better idea of how Flora came to be. Andrews also goes I to explain how, “Poliziano’s surviving poems have reminded scholars of Botticelli’s painting” (Andrews 80). Afterwards he later goes on to explain how this is what helped aid the Fasti in unfolding the truth behind the Primavera. These poems weren’t eve addressed in Boroughs’ article, and this seems odd considering how much emphasis Andrews uses to show the importance of these poems. Then after that he goes on to explain the importance of the patron, who was meant to be Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco, and what the story behind the Primavera