53, Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, is finer, and here again the landscape and light are perfect.

For the rest, there is a Royal Academy Andrea and a formal Ghirlandaio.
And now we come to Botticelli, who although less richly represented in numbers than at the Uffizi, is for the majority of his admirers more to be sought here, by reason of the "Primavera" allegory, which is the Accademia's most powerful magnet.

The Botticellis are divided between two rooms, the "Primavera" being in the first.

The first feeling one has is how much cooler it is here than among the Peruginos, and how much gayer; for not only is there the "Primavera," but Fra Lippo Lippi is here too, with a company of angels helping to crown the Virgin, and a very sweet, almost transparent, little Madonna adoring--No.

79--which one cannot forget.
The "Primavera" is not wearing too well: one sees that at once.