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