Botticelli's Mythologies : A Study in the Neo-Platonic Symbolism of his Circle - aesthetica @ wiki

Ernst Gombrich
Botticelli's Mythologies : A Study in the Neo-Platonic Symbolism of his Circle
(Symbolic images, London : Phaidon, 1967. pp. 31-81.)
first published in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 8, 1945, pp. 7-60. [JSTOR]

A Postscript as a Preface 31

Introduction 36

The 'Primavera' 37
Past Interpretations
The Historical Aperoach: Ficino's Letter to Botticelli's Patron-Apuleius' Description of Venus
Misreadings of the Text
Description and Symbolism in Apuleius
The Graces and the Problem of Exegesis
The Typological Approach

The Platonic Academy and Botticelli's Art 64
Ficino and Botticelli's Patron
Mars and Venus
Pallas and the Centaur
The Birth of Venus-The Villa Lemmi Frescoes
Ficino and Art

Appendix: Three unpublished letters by Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici 79

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