Sandro Botticelli And Simonetta Vespucci In Renaissance Florence Italy


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The Most Beautiful Woman In Florence


The Most Beautiful Woman In Florence
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Author : Alyssa Palombo
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date : 2017-04-25

The Most Beautiful Woman In Florence written by Alyssa Palombo and has been published by St. Martin's Griffin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-25 with Fiction categories.


"In the tradition of Tracy Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, Palombo has married fine art with romantic historical fiction in this lush and sensual interpretation of Medici Florence, artist Sandro Botticelli, and the muse that inspired them all." - Booklist A girl as beautiful as Simonetta Cattaneo never wants for marriage proposals in 15th Century Italy, but she jumps at the chance to marry Marco Vespucci. Marco is young, handsome and well-educated. Not to mention he is one of the powerful Medici family’s favored circle. Even before her marriage with Marco is set, Simonetta is swept up into Lorenzo and Giuliano de’ Medici’s glittering circle of politicians, poets, artists, and philosophers. The men of Florence—most notably the rakish Giuliano de’ Medici—become enthralled with her beauty. That she is educated and an ardent reader of poetry makes her more desirable and fashionable still. But it is her acquaintance with a young painter, Sandro Botticelli, which strikes her heart most. Botticelli immediately invites Simonetta, newly proclaimed the most beautiful woman in Florence, to pose for him. As Simonetta learns to navigate her marriage, her place in Florentine society, and the politics of beauty and desire, she and Botticelli develop a passionate intimacy, one that leads to her immortalization in his masterpiece, The Birth of Venus. Alyssa Palombo’s The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence vividly captures the dangerous allure of the artist and muse bond with candor and unforgettable passion.



Botticelli


Botticelli
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Author : Emile Gebhart
language : en
Publisher: Parkstone International
Release Date : 2012-05-08

Botticelli written by Emile Gebhart and has been published by Parkstone International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-08 with Art categories.


He was the son of a citizen in comfortable circumstances, and had been, in Vasari’s words, “instructed in all such things as children are usually taught before they choose a calling.” However, he refused to give his attention to reading, writing and accounts, continues Vasari, so that his father, despairing of his ever becoming a scholar, apprenticed him to the goldsmith Botticello: whence came the name by which the world remembers him. However, Sandro, a stubborn-featured youth with large, quietly searching eyes and a shock of yellow hair – he has left a portrait of himself on the right-hand side of his picture of the Adoration of the Magi – would also become a painter, and to that end was placed with the Carmelite monk Fra Filippo Lippi. But he was a realist, as the artists of his day had become, satisfied with the joy and skill of painting, and with the study of the beauty and character of the human subject instead of religious themes. Botticelli made rapid progress, loved his master, and later on extended his love to his master’s son, Filippino Lippi, and taught him to paint, but the master’s realism scarcely touched Lippi, for Botticelli was a dreamer and a poet. Botticelli is a painter not of facts, but of ideas, and his pictures are not so much a representation of certain objects as a pattern of forms. Nor is his colouring rich and lifelike; it is subordinated to form, and often rather a tinting than actual colour. In fact, he was interested in the abstract possibilities of his art rather than in the concrete. For example, his compositions, as has just been said, are a pattern of forms; his figures do not actually occupy well-defined places in a well-defined area of space; they do not attract us by their suggestion of bulk, but as shapes of form, suggesting rather a flat pattern of decoration. Accordingly, the lines which enclose the figures are chosen with the primary intention of being decorative. It has been said that Botticelli, “though one of the worst anatomists, was one of the greatest draughtsmen of the Renaissance.” As an example of false anatomy we may notice the impossible way in which the Madonna’s head is attached to the neck, and other instances of faulty articulation and incorrect form of limbs may be found in Botticelli’s pictures. Yet he is recognised as one of the greatest draughtsmen: he gave to ‘line’ not only intrinsic beauty, but also significance. In mathematical language, he resolved the movement of the figure into its factors, its simplest forms of expression, and then combined these various forms into a pattern which, by its rhythmical and harmonious lines, produces an effect upon our imagination, corresponding to the sentiments of grave and tender poetry that filled the artist himself. This power of making every line count in both significance and beauty distinguishes the great master- draughtsmen from the vast majority of artists who used line mainly as a necessary means of representing concrete objects.



The Renaissance Portrait


The Renaissance Portrait
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Author : Patricia Lee Rubin
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Release Date : 2011

The Renaissance Portrait written by Patricia Lee Rubin and has been published by Metropolitan Museum of Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Art, Italian categories.


Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Bode-Museum, Berlin, Aug. 25-Nov. 20, 2011, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Dec. 21, 2011-Mar. 18, 2012.



Botticelli


Botticelli
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Author : Emile Gebhart
language : fr
Publisher: Parkstone International
Release Date : 2012-05-08

Botticelli written by Emile Gebhart and has been published by Parkstone International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-08 with Art categories.


Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) (Florence, 1445 – 1510) Botticelli était le fils d'un citoyen jouissant d'une situation confortable, et avait été «instruit dans toutes les choses que les enfants doivent habituellement savoir avant de choisir une vocation ». Mais il refusa de consacrer son attention à la lecture, l'écriture et le calcul, poursuit Vasari, de sorte que son père, désespérant de le voir un jour à l'école, le plaça en apprentissage auprès de l'orfèvre Botticello, d'où le nom qui est passé à la postérité. Mais Sandro, jeune garçon à l'air entêté, doté de grands yeux calmes et scrutateurs et d'une tignasse blonde – il s'est représenté lui-même sur le côté gauche de L'Adoration des Mages – voulait bien devenir peintre, et il fut donc placé auprès du moine carmélite Fra Filippo Lippi. Comme de nombreux artistes de son temps, satisfait de la joie que lui procurait la peinture, il se tourna vers l'étude de la beauté et du caractère de l'homme, plutôt que vers les thèmes religieux. Ainsi, Sandro fit des progrès rapides, aimant son professeur et, plus tard, le fils de celui-ci, Filippino Lippi, auquel il apprit à peindre. Mais le réalisme du maître le toucha à peine, car Sandro était un rêveur et un poète. Botticelli n'est pas un peintre de faits, mais d'idées ; ses tableaux ne sont pas tant des représentations d'objets que des agencements de motifs et de formes. Ses couleurs ne sont pas riches et proches de la vie, mais subordonnées à la forme, et elles sont souvent des nuances plus que de vraies couleurs. En réalité, il s'intéresse aux possibilités abstraites de son art, et ses personnages n'occupent pas de place bien définie dans l'espace : ils n'attirent pas notre oeil par leur volume, mais suggèrent plutôt un motif ornemental plat. De même, les lignes qui entourent les personnages sont choisies pour leur fonction première, décorative. On a dit que Botticelli, «bien qu'étant un piètre anatomiste, était l'un des plus grands dessinateurs de la Renaissance ». Comme exemple d'anatomie erronée, nous pouvons citer la manière improbable dont la tête de la Madone est reliée à son cou, ou encore toutes les articulations approximatives et les membres difformes que l'on trouve dans les tableaux de Botticelli. Pourtant, son talent de dessinateur fut reconnu, car il donna à la «ligne » non seulement une beauté intrinsèque, mais également un sens. Autrement dit, en langage mathématique, il réduisit le mouvement de la figure à la somme de ses facteurs élémentaires, à ses plus simples formes d'expression. Il combina ensuite ces diverses formes en une figure qui, à travers ses lignes rythmiques et harmoniques, projette sur notre imagination les sentiments poétiques qui animaient l'artiste lui-même. Ce pouvoir de faire compter chaque ligne, à la fois par son sens et par sa beauté, distingue les grands maîtres du dessin de la grande majorité des artistes, utilisant la ligne avant tout comme un outil nécessaire à la représentation des objets concrets.



Botticelli


Botticelli
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Author : Isabella Alston
language : en
Publisher: TAJ Books International
Release Date : 2014-11-19

Botticelli written by Isabella Alston and has been published by TAJ Books International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-19 with Art categories.


Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as simply Sandro Botticelli, was born in Florence, Italy, probably in or around 1445. Serendipitously winning a high-profile commission from the Florentine court, he was catapulted to notoriety as wealthy patrons, in particular the Medici family, hired him to create works that celebrated their lives and their familyÍs lives and marked important events such as weddings. BotticelliÍs range was wide: he embellished the walls of the Sistine Chapel with three frescoes, illustrated DanteÍs The Divine Comedy (just under100 drawings still exist), and painted both mythological and religious scenes„Primavera and The Birth of Venus, and Adoration of the Magi, being respective examples of his excellence in the genre. Botticelli never wed, possibly due to his unrequited love for the married Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci, who died very young. By the end of 15th century, Botticelli came to believe that Humanism„a philosophy embraced by the Medici family„was amoral. His reaction was to burn many of his paintings and thereafter to produce only religious-themed works.



The Stanze Of Angelo Poliziano


The Stanze Of Angelo Poliziano
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2010-11-01

The Stanze Of Angelo Poliziano written by and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with Poetry categories.




Sandro Botticelli


Sandro Botticelli
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Author : Julia Cartwright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1920

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Leonardo Da Vinci Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library


Leonardo Da Vinci Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library
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Author : Alex Raynham
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-02-10

Leonardo Da Vinci Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Alex Raynham and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-10 with Foreign Language Study categories.


A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Alex Raynham. 'What does the world look like from the moon?' 'How do our bodies work?' 'Is it possible for people to fly?' 'Can I make a horse of bronze that is 8 metres tall?' 'How can we have cleaner cities?' All his life, Leonardo da Vinci asked questions. We know him as a great artist, but he was one of the great thinkers of all time, and even today, doctors and scientists are still learning from his ideas. Meet the man who made a robot lion, wrote backwards, and tried to win a war by moving a river . . .



Sandro Botticelli 1445 1510 Artist And Entrepreneur In Renaissance Florence


Sandro Botticelli 1445 1510 Artist And Entrepreneur In Renaissance Florence
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Author : Gert Jan Van der Sman
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015

Sandro Botticelli 1445 1510 Artist And Entrepreneur In Renaissance Florence written by Gert Jan Van der Sman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Art categories.




Botticelli


Botticelli
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Author : Ana Debenedetti
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2021-11-22

Botticelli written by Ana Debenedetti and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-22 with Art categories.


In this vivid account Ana Debenedetti examines the life and work of Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli, through the lens of the organization of his workshop and the commercial strategies he devised to make his way in the very competitive art market in Florence at that time. She looks at the remarkable career of this pivotal artist and his production with fresh eyes, presenting the analysis within the wider context of Florentine society and culture. Many of Botticelli's most celebrated works such as The Birth of Venus are evaluated alongside less familiar forms such as tapestry and embroidery, showing the wide breath of the artist's oeuvre and his talent as a designer across media.