【旷世杰作的秘密】桑德罗·波提切利《春》3

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At the centre stands Venus, the goddess of love, and above her flies her blindfolded son Cupid, ready to let fly a flaming arrow. He seems to be aiming at a group of young, scantily-clad women. These are the Three Graces. The young male figure on the left is Mercury, messenger of the gods, identified by his trademark winged boots. The most puzzling figures are grouped on the right. Zephyr, the winged god of the west wind, is descending to seize Chloris, a wood nymph. He rapes her, and she is transformed into Flora, the goddess of flowers. So the two female figures seen here are really two expressions of a single person. The figures stand in an astonishingly fertile meadow. Over 500 individual flowers are shown, representing 170 species – each specimen uniquely rendered. Identifying the figures and flowers of the Primavera is not difficult. The 500-year-old question is why they're all gathered together in this enchanted garden.画面中央站着爱神维纳斯，上方是她蒙着双眼的儿子丘比特，丘比特手中熊熊燃烧的箭似乎瞄准了下方几名衣不蔽体的年轻少女，这就是美慧三女神。左侧的少年是众神信使莫丘里，他脚上长者翅膀的靴子是他的注册商标。最令人迷惑的是右侧的几个人物，生着一对翅膀的西风之神从天而降，抓住了森林女神克罗莉斯。他强暴了她，克罗莉斯便化身为花神芙罗拉。所以图巾的这两名女性画的其实是统一个人。画中人物站在一片富饶丰美的草地上，如垠绿草上有五百多朵花，分属170个品种，每一朵花都画得一丝不苟。辨识“春”中得人物及花卉并不困难，当让人们狐疑了五百多年得谜题是他们为何全都聚齐在这座迷人得花园中？