Sonnets For Spring By Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Sonnets For Spring By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

In the center stands Flora. To the right, a blue-tinged Zephyrus is depicted stealing away with a young Chloris, who will later become the goddess Flora. Venus is depicted, as well as the Three Graces, the God Mercury, standing poised to pluck a fruit, and above them all, Cupid with his arrow.

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Sonnets For Spring by Sandro Botticelli (In the Accademia of Florence)

By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Sonnet For Spring by Sandro Botticelli (In the Accademia of Florence)

By Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)

What masque of what old wind-withered New-Year

Honours this Lady? Flora, wanton-eyed

For birth, and with all flowrets prankt and pied:

Aurora, Zephyrus, with mutual cheer

Of clasp and kiss: the Graces circling near,

'Neath bower-linked arch of white arms glorified:
And with those feathered feet which hovering

glide

O'er Spring's brief bloom, Hermes the harbinger.

Birth-bare, not death-bare yet, the young stems

stand,

This Lady's temple-columns: o'er her head

Love wings his shaft. What mystery here is read

Of homage or of hope? But how command

Dead Springs to answer? And how question here

These mummers of that wind-withered New-

Year?

Further Information about the Artwork:

Artist/Maker: Sandro Botticelli (Italian, c. 1445 - 1510)

Date: circa 1480

Medium: Tempera grassa on wood

Dimensions: 207 x 319 cm

Resides In: The Uffizi, Italy

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