Concluding Remarks
Thus La Primavera, which brings pre-Christian wisdom to the service of the Christian ideal for the benefit of the young Lorenzo, expresses a set of beliefs passionately championed by its owner’s circle. Originating in classical antiquity as a perennial philosophy, it was rediscovered in Florence in the fifteenth century and employed in the quest for religious syncretism.
La Primavera,The tradition of veiling, the painting’s removal from its original private location and its use of a visual language and philosophical concepts distanced from us by time and by altered priorities, have conspired to make its message a challenge for today’s art lover. It was not so for the young Lorenzo Minore. For him there was no painted veil or ambiguity. It expressed what his mentor had
