[5] Art historians point out changing conventions of portraiture in Botticelli's painting: "earlier Florentine portraits were in profile.

"By abandoning the profile pose traditionally used in depictions of Renaissance women, Botticelli brought a new sense of movement into the portrait.

"[2] The painting helped art historians to identify the sheer overdress worn by the Mona Lisa, a "similar" guarnello.

[7] Dante Gabriel Rossetti referred to the painting in his comments on his poem "For Spring, by Sandro Botticelli":[4] What masque of what old wind-withered New-Year Honours this Lady?

* Flora, wanton-eyed For birth, and with all flowrets prankt and pied with his reference: * The same Lady, here surrounded by the masque of Spring, is evidently the subject of a portrait by Botticelli formerly in the Pourtales collection in Paris.