You know “Le Printemps” by Botticelli, but have you really watched it?

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You know “Le Printemps” by Botticelli, but have you really watched it?






















You know “Le Printemps” by Botticelli, but have you really watched it?

“Le Printemps” by Sandro Botticelli, at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence – Wikicommons

“Le Printemps” by Sandro Botticelli, at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence – Wikicommons

In the 15th century, Botticelli produced what will remain one of the most famous works of Western art. Why did “Le Printemps” strike such a chord? What do we see so strong? And why, without even knowing it, everything we watch today is impregnated by this work?

With

  • Ana Debenedetti
    Art historian, specialist in Florentine Renaissance art

Broadcast sounds:

  • Archive of an advertisement for Thé des familles, a digestive herbal tea
  • Excerpts from the series The Medici: Masters of Florenceby Frank Spotnitz and Nicholas Meyer
  • Archive of René Huyghe in French Culture Hour05/16/1952
  • Song by Heinrich Isaac: Ne piu bella di queste
  • Song by Aldo Frank, Have you seen this spring?
  • Song of the Rassegna Company, Vinni la Primavera

Bibliography:

  • Under the direction of Ana Debenedetti and Pierre Curie: exhibition catalog

    Botticelli: artist and designer at the Jacquemart-André museum in Paris (September 2021 to January 24, 2022), co-published by Fonds Mercator and Culture Espaces

  • Morena Constantini, translation by Ida Giordano:

    Sandro Botticellipublished by Gallimard Découvertes

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