Alexander Cabanel's version was a huge success at the Salon of 1863 and features five putti in the sky with the two on the left drinking ambrosia, while the three on the right cavort above the title figure.
Alexander Cabanel's version was a huge success at the Salon of 1863 and features five putti in the sky with the two on the left drinking ambrosia, while the three on the right cavort above the title figure. The more famous one features a copse on the right in which each leaf has a gold spine and outline and the tree trunks have diagonal lines of gold. The title figure is arriving in Paphos at Cyprus near the aforementioned orange grove where one of the Hours awaits with a red and white daisy-embroidered orange robe. On the left, carrying Chloris, is Zephyrus from whose mouth a gust of wind can be seen. FTP, name this painting in which the title figure appears standing in a scalloped shell, the most famous painting of Sandro Botticelli.
Alexander Cabanel's version was a huge success at the Salon of 1863 and features five putti in the sky with the two on the left drinking ambrosia, while the three on the right cavort above the title figure.
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