Bottichelli's La Primavera

This painting is 'La Primavera' by Sandro Bottichelli, which was made in 1478 on tempera on wood.  This painting is about Venus celebrating the arival of spring. Next to Venus are the Three Graces targetted by the Cupid on the top of the painting. Other Greek Myth characters drawn on the painting are Zephyrus and Chloris, Flora who is the one covered with flowers, Mercury who is on the far left-hand side of the painting moving away winter clouds so that sping can come. This painting is a clear reflection of what was happening during the Renaissance which is shown by the topic of the painting.Secularism was developed during the Renaissance allowing artists new topics for their paintings other than religious paintings. Bottichelli was one of the main artists who were greatly influenced by secularism and as you can see from the painting 'La Primavera', the topic was very unrelated to religion and was based on fantasy and greek mythology. This was a very big and important step people took in the Renaissance because people in the Middle Ages wouldn't even imagine drawing something so unrelated to religion and the church. They even might had been punished in the Middle Ages for drawing an unreligious topic but, due to Lorenzo the Magnificent patronizing artists and encouraging secularism to artists, artists started to draw paintings which were unrelated to religion, and other people began to be a part of secularism and secularism developed very fast. When secularism developed, people started to think logically which made science develop too, since science is all about thinking logically. This painting 'La Primavera' shows entirely what the Renaissance was about and what developed during the Renaissance by showing secularism in the painting which also leads to the development of science.