Sandro Botticelli's Primavera has been Referenced by...
Arts
- Le Bouquet Tout Fait: René Magritte parodies Botticelli's Flora, Goddess of Flowers, by making her scatter flowers from a basket and stand behind one of Magritte's typical everyday men wearing a bowler hat.
Comic Books
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW): The My Little Pony: FIENDship Is Magic cover artwork for "The Sirens" issue depicts a trio of pony mermaids dancing and holding hands in the same poses as Botticelli's trio of Graces.
Live-Action TV
- Hannibal: In "Dolce", Hannibal sketches a rendition of Botticelli's Primavera in which he replaces the wind god Zephyrus with Will and the nymph Chloris with Bedelia. For context, in the painting, Zephyrus is about to rape Chloris.
Music
- FAKE TYPE.: "La Primavera", both as a song and music video, is based on the painting Primavera by Sandro Botticelli. The song and music video highlight the same gods and goddesses that appear in the piece.
Theatre
- Cesare - Il Creatore che ha distrutto has a whole song about it
. Projections of the painting appear in the background, and dancers come on stage with costumes styled to the painting. The song is also about the atmosphere of beauty, discovery, and openness that the characters fear will end when Lorenzo de'Medici dies, and he's very ill.
