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The Resource Botticelli's secret : the lost drawings and the rediscovery of the Renaissance, Joseph Luzzi

Botticelli's secret : the lost drawings and the rediscovery of the Renaissance, Joseph Luzzi

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Botticelli's secret : the lost drawings and the rediscovery of the Renaissance
Title
Botticelli's secret
Title remainder
the lost drawings and the rediscovery of the Renaissance
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Joseph Luzzi
Title variation
Botticellis secret
Title variation remainder
the lost drawings and the rediscovery of the Renaissance
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Language
eng
Summary
""Brilliantly conceived and executed, Botticelli's Secret is a riveting search for buried treasure." -Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve. Some five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created works of unearthly beauty. A star of Florence's art world, he was commissioned by a member of the city's powerful Medici family to execute a near-impossible project: to illustrate all one hundred cantos of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, the ultimate visual homage to that "divine" poet. This sparked a gripping encounter between poet and artist, between the religious and the secular, between the earthly and the evanescent, recorded in exquisite drawings by Botticelli that now enchant audiences worldwide. Yet after a lifetime of creating masterpieces including Primavera and The Birth of Venus, Botticelli declined into poverty and obscurity. His Dante project remained unfinished. Then the drawings vanished for over four hundred years. The once famous Botticelli himself was forgotten. The nineteenth-century rediscovery of Botticelli's Dante drawings brought scholars and art lovers to their knees: this work embodied everything the Renaissance had come to mean. From Botticelli's metaphorical rise from the dead in Victorian England to the emergence of eagle-eyed connoisseurs like Bernard Berenson and Herbert Horne in the early twentieth century, and even the rescue of precious art during World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the posthumous story of Botticelli's Dante drawings is, if anything, even more dramatic than their creation. A combination of artistic detective story and rich intellectual history, Botticelli's Secret shows not only how the Renaissance came to life, but also how Botticelli's art helped bring it about-and, most important, why we need the Renaissance and all that it stands for today"--
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11088465
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Luzzi, Joseph
Dewey number
759.5
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • plates
Index
index present
LC call number
NC257.B68
LC item number
L89 2022
Literary form
non fiction
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bibliography
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  • Botticelli, Sandro
  • Dante Alighieri
  • Renaissance
  • Art and society
  • Illustration of books
  • Botticelli, Sandro
  • Art and society
  • Illustration of books
  • Renaissance
  • Themes, motives
  • Italy
http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
the lost drawings and the rediscovery of the Renaissance
Label
Botticelli's secret : the lost drawings and the rediscovery of the Renaissance, Joseph Luzzi
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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volume
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  • nc
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rdacarrier
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  • text
  • still image
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  • txt
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  • rdacontent
Contents
Part 1: Infinite disorder -- The pop star -- Bottega to brand -- Chiaroscuro -- The commission -- Late style -- Part 2: Afterlives and renaissances -- History's lost and found -- Botticelli in Britain -- The eyes of Florence -- Berlin and beyond
Control code
on1294285537
Dimensions
22 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xii, 332 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9781324004011
Lccn
2022036535
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
40031441561
Other physical details
illustrations (chiefly color)
System control number
(OCoLC)1294285537
Label
Botticelli's secret : the lost drawings and the rediscovery of the Renaissance, Joseph Luzzi
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
Part 1: Infinite disorder -- The pop star -- Bottega to brand -- Chiaroscuro -- The commission -- Late style -- Part 2: Afterlives and renaissances -- History's lost and found -- Botticelli in Britain -- The eyes of Florence -- Berlin and beyond
Control code
on1294285537
Dimensions
22 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xii, 332 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9781324004011
Lccn
2022036535
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
40031441561
Other physical details
illustrations (chiefly color)
System control number
(OCoLC)1294285537

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