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According to Mirella Levi
D’Ancona and others in Botticelli’s Primavera. A Botanical
Interpretation Including Astronomy, Alchemy and the Medici, Florence,
1983, plate IV. Without requiring a constant naturalistic fidelity from
Botticell, it is unlikely that a pomegranate flower was painted like
this. We think it is a potentilla. |