Primavera di Botticelli - Birth of Venus by Botticelli |
… “arbitrium tu, dea, floris habe.”
Saepe ego digestos volui numerare colores,
nec potui: numero copia maior erat.
Saepe ego digestos volui numerare colores,
nec potui: numero copia maior erat.
Ovidio, Fasti, V, 210 sgg .
.. "Goddess, take charge of the flowers,"
I often wanted to count the colors of the plants he'd
set out, but I couldn't: the profusion was beyond counting.
I often wanted to count the colors of the plants he'd
set out, but I couldn't: the profusion was beyond counting.
Today the northern hemisphere celebrates the first day of Spring!
... what better example than the Primavera or Birth of Venus by Botticelli, a key works in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence!
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