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Tables of Contents for Botticelli
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Myths and Mythological Pictures
7
7
Mars and Venus: Forerunners and Sources in Antiquity
14
20
The Pacification of Mars as the Taming of Manly Desire
26
8
La Primavera: A Wedding Picture
34
35
The Iconography of Womanly Virtue and Marriage
48
8
Flora: Tree Plenty for the Medici Family
56
3
The Symbolism of the Tree
59
5
The Wedding Picture as an Image of Love
64
5
Minerva and the Centaur: An Image of Feminine Domination
69
13
The Birth of Venus: An Image of Arrival
82
19
The Villa Lemmi Frescoes: Eternal Love after Death?
101
12
Literary Appendix on La Primavera
113
2
Biography of the Artist
115
7
Notes
122
3
Select Bibliography
125
2
List of Illustrations
127