Archive for May, 2005



Aesthetics and the Renaissance
Final Paper - Botticelli’s Primavera
Spring 2005
W. Thomas Grové
The Primavera, a masterpiece by Botticelli, is a quintessential illustration of the Neo-Platonic revival of the Renaissance. It is a beautiful image that incorporates and embodies many of the Renaissance themes; love in all of its forms, reason, harmonics, and non-dual direct spiritual realization [...]