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Date: c. 1480 Artist: Sandro Botticelli Art Movement/Period: Renaissance Exhibited Place: Uffizi Gallery Botticelli's Primavera: An Enigmatic Masterpiece One of the artist's greatest works , Primavera ( Spring) , with its enigmatic arrangement of mythological figures, is among the most studied Renaissance paintings worldwide. The painting depicts figures from classical mythology gathered in a garden. These figures are an allegory of spring and the blossoming of love .

Date: Early 1st Century C.E. Artist: Athanadoros, Hagesandros, Polydoros Art Movement/Period: Hellenistic Where it is exhibited: Vatican Museum The Marble Face of Pain: The Journey of Laocoon and His Sons from the Renaissance to the Present M any abandoned and forgotten works of ancient art were discovered during the Renaissance, either by chance or by those searching for them themselves. This statue was found in 1506 by a farmer working in a vineyard on the Esquiline Hi

Date: 1544 Artist: Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) Art Movement/Period: Late Renaissance, Mannerism Exhibited Location: Minneapolis...