{"id":6090,"date":"2011-10-26T03:47:22","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T03:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=6090"},"modified":"2011-10-26T03:47:22","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T03:47:22","slug":"la-primavera-plato-alchemy-love-flora-and-venus-in-a-garden-grove-with-a-flowery-mead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/la-primavera-plato-alchemy-love-flora-and-venus-in-a-garden-grove-with-a-flowery-mead\/","title":{"rendered":"La Primavera, Plato, Alchemy, Love, Flora and Venus in a garden grove with a flowery mead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Botticelli-primavera-venus-garden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Botticelli-primavera-venus-garden.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Botticelli-primavera-venus-garden\" width=\"775\" height=\"550\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Botticelli-primavera-venus-garden.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Botticelli-primavera-venus-garden-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Botticelli-primavera-venus-garden-768x545.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Botticelli-primavera-venus-garden-624x443.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a> La Primavera (&#8216;Spring&#8217;) was painted by Sandro Botticelli c1482 and is one of the world&#8217;s most popular paintings. It shows a playful group of young maidens, two males and one putti. They are in a garden grove of orange trees with a flowery mead beneath their feet. The charming scene is interpreted as an allegory of Neoplatonic and Alchemical love, according to the philosophy of Marsilio Ficino. Venus is the central figure, as she is in many garden scenes. The Zephyr on the on the right tries to rape Chloris but then transforms her into Flora (the goddess of flowers). Alchemists believed one must go through difficult times in the progress of the soul towards perfection, as base metals must go through fire to become gold. The garden represents the physical world and the painting was partly inspired by Ovid&#8217;s description of the arrival of Spring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Primavera (&#8216;Spring&#8217;) was painted by Sandro Botticelli c1482 and is one of the world&#8217;s most popular paintings. It shows a playful group of young maidens, two males and one putti. They are in a garden grove of orange trees with a flowery mead beneath their feet. The charming scene is interpreted as an allegory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}