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Synopsis:
The story behind Botticelli's enigmatic 15th-century masterpiece La Primavera, which saw the artist abandoning his previous conventional depictions of Christian imagery in favour of sensual female figures of the kind that would come to typify the Renaissance period. One of the first major secular works of art since Roman times, the painting remained in the hands of the Medici dynasty for centuries, and wasn't displayed publicly until the 1800s. However, it has become a highly influential work, b…
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Ian Jones - Director, Jeremy Bugler - Series-Editor
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