Primavera
Sandro Botticelli · 1480s
The story
Primavera is a large panel painting in tempera paint by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli made in the late 1470s or early 1480s. It has been described as "one of the most written about, and most controversial paintings in the world", and also "one of the most popular paintings in Western art".
- Artist
- Sandro Botticelli
- Date
- 1480s
- Collection
- Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
- Movement
- Early Renaissance
- Medium
- tempera, plaster, panel
- Size
- 207 × 314 cm
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