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.