Botticelli- Life And Work

ISBN is 0500092060 / 9780500092064
Published by 1989
Condition: Near MintEdition: First
Categories: , SKU: 482

Description

Botticelli- Life And Work There is no more radiant picture in European art than this,” writes Lightbown of Botticelli’s Birth of Venus . An absorbing text, fresh photographs of every autograph work and marvelous enlarged details of the cleaned ones situate the Florentine innovator in the hothouse of 15th-century politics and Renaissance culture. How did Botticelli break away from the Gothic style of his mentors to achieve his powerful, plastic idiom? By painful trial and error, Lightbown demonstrates. This British expert on Renaissance painting discusses Botticelli’s remarkable portraits (only eight or so survive), his religious visions and the agitated energy of his almost hallucinatory drawings for Dante’s Divine Comedy. All students of Botticelli should own this resplendent volume. 

Additional information

Book Author

Ronal Lightbown

Published

1989

Edition

First

ISBN 10

0500092060

ISBN 13

9780500092064

Language

English

Condition

Near Mint

Format

Hardcover

  • Publisher’s Blue Cloth
  • Gilt Title To Spine
  • Dust Jacket
  • Near Mint