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Tres Riches Heures: January
Painting · Limbourg Brothers
The Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (c. 1412-1416), the January calendar page shown here, is the supreme surviving Gothic illuminated manuscript.Crosses International Gothic × Painting × Christiani
Tristithea·6/27/2026
Primavera
Painting · Sandro Botticelli
Botticelli's Primavera (c. 1480) is one of the most studied paintings of the Italian Renaissance, an allegory of spring peopled by Venus, Mercury, the Three Graces, Flora and Zephyrus.Crosses Renaissa
Tristithea·6/27/2026
The Birth of Venus
Tempera on canvas · Sandro Botticelli
Painted around 1485 for the Medici circle in Florence, Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus shows the goddess Venus, the Greek Aphrodite, arriving on the shore of Cythera. Born of the sea foam, she stan
Tristithea·6/20/2026
