Amsterdam Schiphol Airport

NOTE: These are not definite; very few airlines have a daily hall; this is based on regularity. As the passage also contains other figures in Botticelli's group, it is probably one of the main sources for the painting: "Spring-time and Venus come,/ And Venus' boy, the winged harbinger, steps on before,/ And hard on Zephyr's foot-prints Mother Flora,/ Sprinkling the ways before them, filleth all/ With colours and with odours excellent.". The name originally meant a part of that lake: 't Schiphol in old maps of the area. In his philosophical didactic poem De Rerum Nature the classical writer Lucretius celebrated both goddesses in a single spring scene. It is part of the Haarlemmermeerpolder, which before around 1850 was a big lake. Flora is standing next to Venus and scattering roses, the flowers of the goddess of love. Schiphol's name means "ship hole" or "ship's hell". This is why the clothes of the two women, who also do not appear to notice each other, are being blown in different directions.

The Fokker aircraft manufacturer started a factory near Schiphol airport in 1951. Botticelli is depicting two separate moments in Ovid's narrative, the erotic pursuit of Chloris by Zephyr and her subsequent transformation into Flora. When civil aircraft started to make use of the field, it was often called Schiphol-les-bains. Regretting his violence, he transforms her into Flora, his gift gives her a beautiful garden in which eternal spring reigns. Schiphol started early last century as a military airbase, consisting only of a few barracks and a mudpool serving as platform/runways. Aroused to a fiery passion by her beauty, Zephyr, the god of the wind, follows her and forcefully takes her as his wife.
. For the month of May, Flora tells how she was once the nymph Chloris, and breathes out flowers as she does so.

Thalys International operates a TGV rail service between Amsterdam, Schiphol, The Hague HS, Rotterdam, Berchem Rail Station (Antwerp), Midi Rail Station (Brussels) and Gare du Nord in Paris. One source for this scene is Ovid's Fasti, a poetic calendar describing Roman festivals. The Dutch Railways operate a major passenger train station directly underneath the passenger terminal complex. Leaving aside the suppositions there remains the profoundly humanistic nature of the painting, a reflection of contemporary cultural influences and an expression of many contemporary texts. . For instance, the Primavera was also read as a political image: Love (Amor) would be Rome ("Roma" in Italian); the three Graces Pisa, Naples and Genoa; Mercury Milan; Flora Florence; May Mantua; Cloris and Boreas Venice and Bozen-Bolzano (or Arezzo and Forlì). Its base is actually 5 m below sea level. Various interpretations of the scene exist.

The Schiphol ATC tower, with a height of 101 m, was the tallest in the world when constructed in 1991. Next to her walks Flora, the goddess of spring, who is scattering flowers. Schiphol is the world's lowest major commercial airport. From the right, Zephyr, the god of the winds, is forcefully pushing his way in, in pursuit of the nymph Chloris. There is a regular-size supermarket, Food Village, that is open until midnight seven days a week. The messenger of the gods is also identified by means of his winged shoes and the caduceus staff which he used to drive two snakes apart and make peace; Botticelli has depicted the snakes as winged dragons. Schiphol Plaza is the shopping center before customs, hence not only for air travellers, but also for people who just change train here, etc. Mercury, who is lightly clad in a red cloak covered with flames, is wearing a helmet and carrying a sword, clearly characterizing him as the guardian of the garden.

Schiphol has large shopping areas as a source of revenue and as an additional attractant to air-carrier passengers. The garden of Venus, the goddess of love, is guarded on the left by Mercury, who stretches out his hand to touch the clouds. Schiphol is the home base of KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines), Martinair and Transavia. The Grace on the right side has the face of Caterina Sforza, also painted by Botticelli in a famous portrait in the Lindenau Museum as Catherine of Alexandria. Because of the intense traffic and high landing and parking fees at Schiphol, more and more holiday-carriers have moved some of their flights to smaller airports, such as Groningen, Rotterdam, Eindhoven and Maastricht. Above her, Cupid is aiming one of his arrows of love at the Charites (Three Graces), who are elegantly dancing a rondel. There are plans for further terminal expansion. Venus is standing in the centre of the picture, set slightly back from the other figures.

The airport is built as one large terminal split into three large departure halls, the most recent having been completed in 1994, which converge again once airside. Above all it is the women's domed stomachs that demonstrate the contemporary ideal of beauty. Plans have already been made for a seventh runway. These are, however, not direct copies but are translated into Botticelli's own unconventional formal language: slender figures whose bodies at times seem slightly too long. The "fifth runway" (really the sixth) was completed in 2003. Some of the figures are based on ancient sculptures. Schiphol has 5 main runways, plus 1 used mainly by general aviation aircraft. The Primavera is, however, special in that it is one of the first surviving paintings from the post-classical period which depicts classical gods almost naked and life-size.

In 2004, Schiphol ranked fourth in Europe in terms of passenger traffic with 42,541,000 passengers, behind London Heathrow (67,344,000), Paris Charles de Gaulle (51,260,000) and Frankfurt International Airport (51,098,000). Such large format paintings were nothing new in high-ranking private residences. Located south of Amsterdam (52°18′31″N, 4°45′50″E), Schiphol aims to be a European mainport, competing in passenger and cargo throughput with Heathrow International Airport in London, UK, Frankfurt International Airport in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Roissy, France. The painting decorated an anteroom attached to Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco's chambers. Schiphol (IATA: AMS, ICAO: EHAM) (municipality Haarlemmermeer) is the Netherlands' main airport. An inventory dating from 1499, which was not discovered until 1975, lists the property of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco and his brother Giovanni and states that in the 15th century the Primavera had been displayed in Florence's city palace. Tyrolean. This is why it was long assumed that the Primavera, as the painting continues to be called, was painted for the fourteen year old Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco when the villa was bought.

Sky Airlines (Antalya, Berlin Tegel). In 1477, the estate was acquired by Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, who was a second cousin of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Jet2.com (Leeds/Bradford and Manchester (UK)). In 1550, Vasari wrote that a picture which according to him announced the arrival of spring (Primavera in Italian) was in the Medici villa in Castello. easyJet Switzerland (Geneva). It is housed in Uffizi Gallery of Florence. easyJet (Belfast, Bristol, Edinburugh, Glasgow-Int'l, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, -Stansted and -Luton). 1482.

bmibaby (Nottingham, Birmingham and Cardiff). The Primavera is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, c. Varig (Paris/CDG, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo). US Airways (Philadelphia). United Airlines (Chicago/O'Hare, Washington/Dulles).

Tunisair (Tunis). Turkish Airlines (Ankara, Istanbul). Surinam Airways (Paramaribo/Zanderij). Singapore Airlines (Singapore).

Pakistan International Airlines (Karachi, Lahore). Onur Air (Ankara, Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman, Istanbul, Izmir). Martinair (Longhaul). LOT (Warsaw).

Korean Air (Seoul/Incheon). Israir (Tel Aviv). Iran Air (Tehran). Inter Express (Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman).

Fly Air (Antalya, Bodrum). Ethiopian Airlines (Addis Ababa, Rome/Fiumicino). El Al (Tel Aviv). Egyptair (Cairo).

Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky, New York/JFK). Continental Airlines (Houston/Intercontinental, Newark). Arkia (Tel Aviv). ArkeFly (Kos, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Rhodes).

Air Transat (Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver). Air Canada (Toronto). KLM Cargo. Royal Jordanian (Amman).

Malaysia Airlines (Kuala Lumpur). Georgian Airlines (Tbilsi). China Airlines (Bangkok and Taipei). Armenian Airlines (Yerevan).

Air Moldova (Chisinau). Air Baltic (Riga). Adria Airways (Ljubljana). Paul, Mumbai, Seattle/Tacoma).

Northwest Airlines (Boston, Detroit, Memphis, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Montréal, Mumbai, Nairobi, Newark, New York/JFK, Oranjestad, Osaka/Kansai, Paramaribo/Zanderij, Philipsburg/Sint Marteen, Quito, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Seattle/Tacoma, Seoul/Incheon, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei, Tel Aviv, Tokyo/Narita, Toronto, Tripoli, Vancouver, Willemstad, Washington/Dulles). KLM (Abu Dhabi, Abuja, Accra, Addis Ababa, Almaty, Amman, Atlanta, Bangkok, Beijing, Cairo, Cape Town, Chicago/O'Hare, Damascus, Dammam, Dar es Salaam, Delhi, Doha, Dubai,Guayaquil, Hong Kong, Houston/Intercontinental, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Khartoum, Kilimajaro, Kralendijk, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait City, Lagos, Lima, Los Angeles, Manila, Memphis, Mexico City, Minneapolis/St. Kenya Airways (Nairobi).

Japan Airlines (Tokyo/Narita, Osaka/Kansai). EVA Air (Bangkok and Taipei). China Southern Airlines (Beijing and Guangzhou). Ukraine International (Kiev).

Tarom Romanian Air Transport (Bucharest). Martinair (Shorthaul). Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest). Lithuanian Airlines (Vilnius).

KLM Cityhopper (Brussels, Cardiff, Dusseldorf, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Frankfurt, Glasgow, Hanover, Luxembourg, Manchester (UK), Munich, Nice, Zurich). Petersberg (RU), Sofia, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Tallinn, Tbilsi, Tehran, Thessaloniki, Venice, Vienna, Warsaw, Zurich). KLM (Non-Schengen leave from one half of D, Schengen leave from the other)Aberdeen, Athens, Bahrain, Barcelona, Beirut, Berlin/Tegel, Birmingham (UK), Bristol, Bucharest, Budapest, Cardiff, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Geneva, Glasgow, Hamburg, Hanover, Helsinki, Istanbul, Kiev, Lisbon, London/City, London/Heathrow, Luxembourg, Madrid, Manchester (UK), Milan/Malpensa, Moscow, Munich, Nice, Oslo, Paris/CDG, Prague, Rome/Fiumicino, Rotterdam, St. Jat Airways (Belgrade).

Cyprus Airways (Larnaca, Paphos). CSA Czech Airlines (Prague). Croatia Airlines (Zagreb). Bulgaria Air (Sofia).

British Airways (London/Heathrow, London/Gatwick). bmi (London/Heathrow, Manchester (UK)). Armavia (Yerevan). Aeroflot (Moscow/Sheremetyevo).

Aer Lingus (Dublin, Cork). Meridiana (Florence and Turin). Air France (Bordeaux, Marseille, Nice, Lyon, Paris/CDG, Stavanger, Trondheim). KLM (some Shorthaul mostly Schengen treaty destinations).

Transavia (Alicante, Antalya, Banjul, Barcelona, Berlin Shönefeld, Bodrum, Copenhagen, Dalaman, Djerba, Faro, Izmir, Las Palma, Madrid, Malaga, Milan Linate, Monastir, Nice, Palma, Pisa, Reus, Tenerife, Treviso). TAP Portugal (Lisbon and Porto). Spanair (Barcelona and Madrid). SAS (Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm).

Olympic Airlines (Athens). Maersk Air (Copenhagen, Billund). Air Dolomiti. Lufthansa (Frankfurt and Munich)