“Primavera,” a masterpiece by Florentine painter Sandro Botticelli (1444 – 1510), is regarded as epitomizing the spirit of the Renaissance and exemplifies Botticelli’s highly refined command of color and form. Little known for centuries after his death, his work was rediscovered in the late 19th century by a group of English artists known as the Pre-Raphaelites. Botticelli, part of the inner circle of the Medicis, painted extraordinary wall frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, and several monumental mythological allegories.

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