Does Primavera by Sandro Botticelli utilize perspective in the background?
I am a retired art teacher so let’s grade Botticelli on his use of the different elements of perspective. The round objects on the foregound that are painted as disks are examples of linear perspective. (B+) You are right that we can’t find an actual vanishing point, but in this allegory, portraying kind of dreamlike, almost floating figures, it doesn’t matter. In Primavera Botticelli showed distance by using: Location; the higherdefinitelycture plane the further back the object. (B) Size: Distant objects look smaller. The background trees are definitely smaller (B) Color: Distant color fades out. Here it darkens. (C) Detail; Detail tends to blur out in the distance and his fruit in distant looks too detailed (D) Lets give Botticelli a B- on perspective, an A on the figures and subject matter, aesthetic beauty and emotional impact.
