Les Petits Secrets des grands tableaux – Le Printemps, 1482, Sandro Botticelli

In the Florence of the Quattrocento, cradle of the Renaissance, Sandro Botticelli, the favourite painter of Lorenzo de Medici, known as ​“Lorenzo the Magnficent”, painted the majestic Allegory of Spring (circa 1482). This hymn to beauty celebrates a prince who chose to unite art and science to raise his city above all others.