Synopsis
Reassesses Botticelli's major works, examines his use of color, and traces his career as an artist
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"There is no more radiant picture in European art than this," writes Lightbown of Botticelli's Birth of Venus . That painting, as well as the Primavera and other Botticelli masterpieces, have been newly cleaned in the past decade, so the radiance of their reproductions dazzle in this expanded revision of Lightbown's 1978 monograph. 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.
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Sandro Botticelli: Life and Work
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Abbeville Press, New York, 1989
ISBN 10: 0896599310
ISBN 13: 9780896599314
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 2nd Edition. Second printing of the second edition, oversized hardcover, has a moderate lean to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends and cover corners with a touch of rippling to the cloth at the tail of the spine, a shallow crease to the upper corner of pgs. 80-200, and a thin, faint smudge curving near the fore edge of the front cover. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight Very Good copy in a Very Good+ dust jacket, which has light bumps with a touch of creasing to the spine ends and corners, minor rubbing to the covers, and very faint sunning to the spine. The jacket is wrapped in a Mylar cover. Seller Inventory # 106451
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Sandro Botticelli: Life and Work
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