Who Painted For The Medici?
Who Painted For The Medici? This work, though lost, is important as a key to Botticelli’s use of Classical mythology to illustrate the sentiment of medieval courtly love in his great mythological paintings. Giuliano de’ Medici, tempera on panel by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1478–80; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 75.5 × 52.5