For the history of the "Primavera" and its signification, one must turn back to Chapter X.
I spoke just now of Luca's flowers.

There are others in his picture in this room--botanist's flowers as distinguished from painter's flowers: the wild strawberry beautifully straggling.

This picture is one of the most remarkable in all Florence to me: a Crucifixion to which the perishing of the colour has given an effect of extreme delicacy, while the group round the cross on the distant mound has a quality for which one usually goes to Spanish art.

The Magdalen is curiously sulky and human.

Into the skull at the foot of the cross creeps a lizard.
This room has three Lippo Lippis, which is an interesting circumstance when we remember that that dissolute brother was the greatest influence on Botticelli.