Theme

There is also another aspect, in the paintings of Boticelli, which could provide the title and perhaps the theme of the manifestation of Sansepolcro: Beauty!
The feminine figures are rendered in an novel physical type, immediately recognisable: slender form, long limbed, and breasts just discernible, oval of face a little elongated, regular features, almond eyes, thick hair, blonde or brown, slightly wavy, moving in a light breeze. But that which makes these young women particularly fascinating is their gaze, from which emanates intelligence, sentiment and spirit of life. Surely influenced by Lorenzo de’Medici, known as Il Magnifico (1449-1492) who described the ideal 15th century feminine beauty maintaining that the body must be “so well proportioned” but “the mind really marvellous enough”, and the Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola (Ferrara 1452-Florence 1498) preaching of real beauty which is the beauty of the soul, itself participating in the beauty of God, Botticelli succeeded in representing it: his beauty is not classically static, as a sexy doll, but is expressive in a modern way, thinking, alive, it is the pictorial expression of the Soul itself.