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Flora's delicate hands, her flowing dress alive with embroidered blossoms, and the roses she releases into the eternal spring of the Medici garden capture the Neoplatonic ideal at the heart of Botticelli's masterpiece: beauty as a divine gift, freely given, endlessly renewed. 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