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SANDRO BOTTICELLI | Primavera | Uffizi, Sala 10-14 | Versione breve | La narrazione è di Kuassi Sessou, la voce di Marco Baliani | Leggi la scheda completa dell'opera su uffizi.it    Sandro Botticelli | Spring | Room 10-14  This garden is like paradise. An earthly paradise where everything had meaning, before the arrival of man. I tried to imagine this meadow empty. The variety of flowers is immense. Everything is perfect, unspoiled. Every detail contributes to the whole. In my eyes, all this takes on an extraordinary affinity with African spirituality: at its center is Nature as a divinity that may be found in the trees, the river, the sun, the wind. That same wind that here, in the Spring by Botticelli, puffs out the clothes, fertilizes the plants, a breath of life that permeates everything. The Spring is a masterpiece of profane art, yet I find it has a strong religious dimension. I start to move across the meadow. The slender trunks of the orange trees slowly become more imposing as I enter