by SANDRO BOTTICELLI written and presented by Edwin Mullins
One of his finest pictures, now at the National Gallery in London, it was painted in Florence about 1500. It is a blend of the natural and the supernatural and there is an incomplete inscription, which has puzzled people for centuries. EDWIN MULUNS offers a theory of what it means.
Film cameraman PETER BARTLETT Film editor WILLIAM SYMON Producer BILL MORTON
Director KENNETH CORDEN