The Arrival of Spring - A Renaissance of Pagan Europe

 The symbolic resurrection of Old Europe through a classic painting. 

The details of "Primavera"

Done by : Sandro Botticelli, 

Date: Early 1480, 

Location: Florence, Italy

Influenced by: 

"Spring-time and Venus come, and Venus' boy,

The winged harbinger, steps on before, 

And hard on Zephyr's foot-prints Mother Flora,

Sprinkling the ways before them, filleth all

With colours and with odours excellent"

LUCRETIUS - On The Nature of Things (Book V - Verse 737)

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THE HERALDS:

The Three Graces 

Chloris and Zephyrous 

Venus

Mercury

Flora

THE MASTERPIECE IN ITS ENTIRETY