Origin/Usage Latin Pronunciation pri-mah-VEH-rah Meaning Spring season. setNewsletterCookie('signedUp', 1); ctx.submit($form, onSuccess); $email.focus(); + ' @media (max-width: 575px){ #ouibounce-modal {display:none !important;} }' + '
Get hand-picked stories from our editors delivered straight to your inbox every day.<\/p>' Some have argued that. Sandro Botticelli’s Primavera is one of art history’s most famous and elusive allegories of the season. Cupid’s arrow provides an important clue to understanding the painting: the arrowhead points at the central figure of the Three Graces, believed to be Chastity, who turns her head away, outward, toward the left of the canvas. “Botticelli suggests the gradual process of metamorphosis through time,” art historian Paul Barolsky noted in his essay, “Botticelli’s ‘Primavera’ as an Allegory of its Own Creation.” The artist accomplishes this, for example, “by first showing the silhouettes of flowers through the veil of Chloris’s dress, only faintly suggesting the form that these flowers will take when they eventually adorn Flora’s dress,” and in numerous clever visual puns scattered throughout the painting. Antonio Vivaldi is a genius and truly stands out as the most creative among the host of composers who brought the Italian Baroque style to its zenith. + '