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Interpretations
IT WILL BE SHOWN that the four distinctly different scenes above, each sufficiently complete to be separate paintings, appear to have little connection on a purely visual level. Unified by flowers, trees and a shared mystical ambiance, they have however an undeniable visual harmony. When the meaning of each emerges, we will see the four scenes unite seamlessly and unambiguously to show us what Lorenzo Minore would have seen and understood under his famous tutor’s guidance at the time of his marriage.
MinoreAdolph Gaspray in 1888 proposed a liaison between the poetry of Poliziano and La Primavera. Aby Warburg (1866-1929) developed this by drawing attention to the possible depiction of the courtly romance of the young Giuliano de’Medici and the beautiful Simonetta Catane
