THE TOP 30 PAINTINGS TO VISIT IN
FLORENCE'S GREATEST ART MUSEUM
Hilt, who layers in plenty of expert detailing in such a
brief, easy to carry book, cannot resist engaging the common man by being a
little cheeky in the following sentences about the much-visited Primavera and
Birth of Venus:
"Another thing we know about these two paintings is
that they were intended for the edification of the adolescent nephew of Lorenzo
de' Medici, ruler of Florence."
"We know something, even today, about teenage boys
and pictures of beautiful naked women, so we can be fairly sure that he was not
unhappy with this gift."
"But we also know that Lorenzo was the patron of the
Florentine Platonic academy and that he and his cousin, Lorenzo di Pierifrancesco,
probably had a more complex agenda in mind when they commissioned the work from
Botticelli."
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