Dinesh's photos with the keyword: Stephen Greenblatt

At the center of Botticelli’s painting stands Venus, surrounded by the ancient gods of the spring. The complex choreography derives from Lucretius’ description of the great seasonal renewal of the earth: “Spring comes and Venus, preceded by Venus’ winged harbinger, and mother Flora, following hard on the heels of Zephyr, prepares the way for them, strewing all their path with profusion of exquisite hues and scents”

This portrait of Poggio appears in the manuscript of his work 'De varietate furtunae.' the work, written when Poggio was sixty-eight years old, eloquently surveys the ruins of ancient Roman greatness. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poggio_Bracciolini