 Автор: Gabriele Mandel Название: The Complete Paintings of Botticelli Издательство: Abrams Год: 1967 ISBN: 978-0810955011 Серия: Classics of the World's Great Art Язык: English Формат: pdf Размер: 22,1 mb Страниц: 120
Botticelli's paintings - all of them illustrated in one form or another in this book are distinguished by a revolutionary, innovatory refinement, using the word in its original technical sense of purifying and separating a substance from extraneous matter.
The sudden rush of fame after three centuries of real neglect propelled an image now seen to be only too patently of nineteenth-century devising. Although it has long been clear that Botticelli was not a willful creator of sickly Jin de siecle Virgins, it has by no means been established what sort of artist he was. And then the sheer familiarity of pictures like the Primavera and the Birth of Venus has induced a sort of weariness of the eye, only enhanced by a general, welcome tendency to place the Florentine early Renaissance in proper perspective, no longer the awesome isolated peak of Western art which it once was.
This book helps to understand Botticelli by means of concentrating on his art, not bothering about preconceptions of naturalism or what we would have supposed of a painter living in late fifteenth-century Florence.
Introduction 5 An outline of the artist's critical history 10 The paintings in color 15 List of plates 16 The works 81 Bibliography 82 Outline biography 83 Catalogue of works 85 Botticelli's other artistic activities 113 Subjects 118 Titles 118 Topographical 119
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