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Ottorino Respighi: Trittico botticelliano
Venus, in the middle, presides over her realm, but as it’s Spring, as we know from the painting’s title, Primavera, the world is a buzz of activity.
Botticelli: Primavera, 1481-82 (Uffizi Gallery)
As we read the painting from right to left, we start with barren boughs, and through the trees comes Zephyr, the west wind, the wind that brings the warmth of spring. He’s intent on capturing the nymph Chloris, who, as Ovid describes, ‘breathes spring roses’ as she talks. Her capture by Zephyr turns her into the goddess Flora, now clothed and crowned in flowers. Above Flora, the flowers and fruit have appeared. Above Venus in the center is Cupid, blindfolded and armed with his dangerous arrows. He’s the son of Venus and Mars, the god of war. He’s taking aim at the three Graces, and at the right, picking the now ripe fruit, is Mercury, shown with his winged sandals, raising his caduceus.
The painting was commissioned by Lorenzo and Giovanni di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici, cousins of Lorenzo il Magnifico. They kept the painting in the house in Florence.
Ottorino Respighi chose three paintings by Botticelli, all in the Uffizi Gallery, as the subject of his Botticelli Trilogy (Trittico botticelliano). The work is dedicated to E
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About this Piece
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Ottorino Respighi
Italian composer and musicologist (1879–1936)
"Respighi" redirects here. For other uses, see Respighi (surname).
Ottorino Respighi | |
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Respighi in 1927 | |
| Born | (1879-07-09)9 July 1879 Bologna, Italy |
| Died | 18 April 1936(1936-04-18) (aged 56) Rome, Italy |
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| Works | List of compositions |
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Ottorino Respighi (reh-SPEE-ghee,[1]rə-;[2]Italian:[ottoˈriːnoreˈspiːɡi]; 9 July 1879 – 18 April 1936) was an Italian composer, violinist, teacher, and musicologist and one of the leading Italian composers of the early 20th century. His compositions range over operas, ballets, orchestral suites, choral songs, chamber music, and transcriptions of Italian compositions of the 16th–18th centuries, but his best known and most performed works are his three orchestral tone poems which brought him international fame: Fountains of Rome (1916), Pines of Rome (1924), and Roman Festivals (1928).
Respighi was born in Bologna to a musical and artistic family. He was encouraged by his father to pursue music at a young age, and took formal tuition in the violin and piano. In 1891, he enrolled at the Liceo Musicale di Bologna, where he studied the violin, viola, and composition, was pr