Platonic love is love, but it's love that is non-sexual. So that, to me, is the kind of love you have towards family members and friends. In Botticelli's Primavera, none of the characters seem to have any sexual desires toward one another. Zephyrus is trying to kidnap Chloris and Chloris is holding on to Flora, Venus is standing in the middle completely neutral, the Graces are dancing amongst themselves, and Mercury is minding his own business to the far left. When I looked at this painting I could tell that there was love and friendship in certain aspects but none whatsoever were sexual. Although there are many attractive women in the painting and Mercury is an attractive and powerful god himself, he isn't interested in any of them and his attention is in the complete opposite direction.
Generalizations about 2D art in the renaissance were: concern with humanist themes, blended science and math with art and creativity, it was highly symbolic, geometric equaled symmetry, and it had precise, ordered presentations. The Primavera's characters were all very life like and has amazing detail that made them look as human as possible as far as their features and proportions. Venus is in the middle of the painting and the brightness of the background around your head and the way the trees arch cause your eyes to focus on her. The graces to Venus' right and Flora, Chloris, and Zephyrus to her left, form triangles with their body shapes making the painting geometric and symmetrical.
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