Botticelli La Primavera Flora Hands Hardcover Journal — Sandro Botticelli 1482 Renaissance Masterpiece & Redouté Roses

Sandro Botticelli’s Flora from La Primavera (1482, Uffizi Gallery) is one of the most botanically precise figures in the history of Western art — her flower-embroidered dress documents over 40 identifiable species, each petal rendered with the loving precision of an artist who understood that beauty and science were not opposites but two expressions of the same divine truth. The front cover presents Flora’s hands and floral dress in intimate detail, the goddess of spring in the act of scattering roses; the back cover presents three rose varieties from Pierre-Joseph Reduöt’s Les Roses (1817–1824) — the Pompon de Bourgogne, the Rose Parvula, and the Rose Paquerette — set against a contemporary pink background, a dialogue across three centuries between Renaissance Neoplatonic allegory and Napoleonic botanical science, united by the eternal beauty of the rose.

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Product Details

• Format: Hardcover journal
• Pages: 150 lined pages (75 sheets) with perforations for easy removal
• Binding: Casewrap sewn binding — flexible and lay-flat
• Dimensions: 5.75 × 8 inches
• Weight: 250 g
• Cover: Matte laminated full-wrap print

Perfect For

• Renaissance art and Botticelli enthusiasts
• Rose lovers, botanical art collectors, and Reduöt admirers
• Art history students and Uffizi Gallery visitors
• Gift for anyone captivated by the beauty of the rose across five centuries of Western art
• Writers, poets, and artists inspired by Flora’s eternal spring and the Neoplatonic ideal of beauty
• Collectors of museum-quality art reproductions and French botanical illustration