{"id":240,"date":"2020-07-07T14:51:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T14:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/?p=240"},"modified":"2024-05-16T21:01:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T21:01:39","slug":"flora-zephyr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/2020\/07\/07\/flora-zephyr\/","title":{"rendered":"FloraZephyr2.0001_Benzoni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giovanni Maria Benzoni, 1809-1873. \u201cZephyr Dancing with Flora.\u201d Marble sculpture on decorative base. 1870. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan; accession number 16.8, gift of Mrs. Cameron D. Waterman. <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/ogcma.byu.edu\/FloraZephyr2.0001_Benzoni.htm\">FloraZephyr2.0001_Benzoni<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zephyr wears no clothing, his modesty covered onl<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1409 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-2024-05-16-at-2.58.27\u202fPM-177x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-2024-05-16-at-2.58.27\u202fPM-177x300.png 177w, https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-2024-05-16-at-2.58.27\u202fPM-35x60.png 35w, https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-2024-05-16-at-2.58.27\u202fPM.png 497w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/>y by the hem of Flora&#8217;s sheer gown, as the two dance elegantly around a basket of flowers. In allegorical myth (Ov. <em>Fasti<\/em> 5.173 ff. and elsewhere), Zephyr\u2019s warm breath blown upon Chloris transforms her into Flora. Their union marks the beginning of spring. The most famous depiction of this is probably Botticelli\u2019s <em>Primavera<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/ogcma.byu.edu\/FloraZephyr1.0003_Botticelli.htm\">FloraZephyr1.0003_Botticelli<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>OGCMAonline, s.v. \u201cFlora and Zephyr\u201d \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/ogcma.byu.edu\/Zephyr1.0000_Reid.htm\">FloraZephyr1.0000_Reid.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bibliography and links:<\/p>\n<p>Detroit Institute of Arts online collection: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dia.org\/art\/collection\/object\/zephyr-dancing-flora-34628\">https:\/\/www.dia.org\/art\/collection\/object\/zephyr-dancing-flora-34628<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.<\/p>\n<p>The present resource contains information assembled for\u00a0The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 \u2013 1990\u2019s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Address concerns or inquiries to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:macfarlane@byu.edu\">macfarlane@byu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giovanni Maria Benzoni, 1809-1873. \u201cZephyr Dancing with Flora.\u201d Marble sculpture on decorative base. 1870. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan; accession number 16.8, gift of Mrs. Cameron D. Waterman. \u2014 FloraZephyr2.0001_Benzoni Zephyr wears no clothing, his modesty covered only by the hem of Flora&#8217;s sheer &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-flora"],"modified_by":"Roger Macfarlane","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}