Sandro Botticelli (english edition)

Descrizione

Now available in a new edition, this celebration of the life and art of the Renaissance genius presents Sandro Botticelli’s complete paintings and offers a comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date study of his work.

Contents: Early work — Initial success in Florence — Botticelli as portraitist — Primavera and her counterpart: Camilla and the Centaur — Botticelli as frescoist in Rome: the Sistine Chapel — Violence against woman: the tale of Nastagio degli Onesti — The later mythology paintings — Later altarpieces — The late work: the end of time and the end of art? — Catalogue of paintings — The drawings.