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Author Gebhart, Emile, 1839-1908.

Title Botticelli / Émile Gebhart & Victoria Charles
Published New York : Parkstone International, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (256 pages) : color illustrations
Series Temporis
Temporis collection.
Contents Botticelli's Youth and Education; Botticelli's First Works; The Medici and Botticelli's Pagan Initiation; Pagan, Mystical, and Oriental Visions; Botticelli's Waning Days; Bibliography; List of Illustrations
Summary The Medici court painter Botticelli is one of the unequivocal artists of the Italian Renaissance alongside Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael. Favouring feminine portraits, Botticelli stands apart through the finesse of his lines and the unbridled sensuality of his paintings. Between religious and private commissions this Florentine artist introduced the profane into art through works of complex mythological subjects, such as the incontrovertibly masterful Primavera and The Birth of Venus, and knew how to delight the erudite patrons of art. The Madonna of the Magnificat remains one of
Notes Print version record
Subject Botticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 1445-1510.
SUBJECT Botticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 1445-1510 fast
Subject Painters -- Italy -- Biography
ART -- History -- General.
Painters
Italy
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Charles, Victoria
ISBN 9781780429953
1780429959
9781783107704
1783107707