DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.31769#0009
Contents
7 Myths and Mythological Pictures
14 Mars and Venus:
Forerunners and Sources in Antiquity
The Pacification of Mars as the Taming of Manly Desire 26
34 La Primavera:
A Wedding Picture
The Iconography of Womanly Virtue and Marriage 48
Flora: Tree Plenty for the Medici Family 56
The Symbolism of the Tree 59
The Wedding Picture as an Image of Love 64
69 Minerva and the Centaur:
An Image of Feminine Domination
82 The Birth oj Venus:
An Image of Arrival
roi The Villa Lemmi Frescoes:
Eternal Love after Death?
Literary Appendix on La Primavera 113
Biography of the Artist 115
Notes 122
Select Bibliography 125
List of Illustrations 127
7 Myths and Mythological Pictures
14 Mars and Venus:
Forerunners and Sources in Antiquity
The Pacification of Mars as the Taming of Manly Desire 26
34 La Primavera:
A Wedding Picture
The Iconography of Womanly Virtue and Marriage 48
Flora: Tree Plenty for the Medici Family 56
The Symbolism of the Tree 59
The Wedding Picture as an Image of Love 64
69 Minerva and the Centaur:
An Image of Feminine Domination
82 The Birth oj Venus:
An Image of Arrival
roi The Villa Lemmi Frescoes:
Eternal Love after Death?
Literary Appendix on La Primavera 113
Biography of the Artist 115
Notes 122
Select Bibliography 125
List of Illustrations 127