Botticelli&Apos S Secret: The Lost Drawings And Rediscovery Of Renaissance Joseph Luzzi Ww Norton Co Αγγλικά Βιβλία Arts Art General

Some Five Hundred Years Ago Sandro Botticelli A Painter Of Humble Origin Created Works Unearthly Beauty Star Florence’s Art World He Was Commissioned By Member The City’s Powerful Medici Family To Execute Near-Impossible Project: Illustrate All One Cantos Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri Ultimate Visual Homage That “Divine” Poet This Sparked Gripping Encounter Between And Artist Religious Secular Earthly Evanescent Recorded In Exquisite Drawings Now Enchant Audiences Worldwide Yet After Lifetime Creating Masterpieces Including Primavera Birth Venus Declined Into Poverty Obscurity His Project Remained Unfinished Then Vanished For Over Four Once Famous Himself Forgotten Nineteenth-Century Rediscovery Botticelli’s Brought Scholars Lovers Their Knees: Work Embodied Everything Renaissance Had Come Mean From Metaphorical Rise Dead Victorian England Emergence Eagle-Eyed Connoisseurs Like Bernard Berenson Herbert Horne Early Twentieth Century Even Rescue Precious During Second War Fall Berlin Wall 1989 Posthumous Story Is If Anything More Dramatic Than Creation Combination Artistic Detective Rich Intellectual History Shows Not Only How Came Life But Also Botticelli\ S Helped Bring It About—And Most Important Why We Need Stands Today Σελίδες: 352 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0131 Διαστάσεις: 14X14Cm