Sandro Botticelli: Life and WorkUpdates the author's critical consideration of Botticelli's work, and presents new, fresh illustrations of works that have been cleaned since the first edition was published."An absorbing text, fresh photographs of every autograph work and marvellous 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."--From publisher's description. |
