Botticelli's Secret - The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
(Sprache: Englisch)
Some 500 years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence's unofficial rulers, the Medici, he was commissioned by a member of their family to execute a near-impossible project: to...
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Some 500 years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence's unofficial rulers, the Medici, he was commissioned by a member of their family to execute a near-impossible project: to illustrate all 100 cantos of The Divine Comedy by the city's greatest poet, Dante Alighieri. A powerful encounter between poet and artist, sacred and secular, earthly and evanescent, these drawings produced a wealth of stunning images but were never finished. Botticelli declined into poverty and obscurity, and his illustrations went missing for 400 years. The nineteenth-century rediscovery of Botticelli's Dante drawings brought scholars to their knees: this work embodied everything the Renaissance had come to mean. Today, Botticelli's Primavera adorns household objects of every kind. This book is essential to explain not only how and why this artist became iconic, but why we need still need his work-and the spirit of the Renaissance-today.
- A New Yorker Best Book of 2022
Autoren-Porträt von Joseph Luzzi
Joseph Luzzi is the Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature at Bard College and an award-winning writer, teacher, and scholar of Italian culture. His latest book, Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance was shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa Society's Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize and was selected as a New Yorker Best Book of 2022. He lives in New York's Hudson Valley.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Joseph Luzzi
- 2022, 352 Seiten, 16 farbige Abbildungen, Maße: 14,5 x 21,8 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Norton
- ISBN-10: 1324004010
- ISBN-13: 9781324004011
- Erscheinungsdatum: 09.12.2022
Sprache:
Englisch
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