- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: Abbeville Press; New edition edition (Oct 20 1989)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0896599310
- ISBN-13: 978-0896599314
- Product Dimensions: 33.8 x 29 x 3.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 3.1 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #6 in Books > Arts & Photography > Artists, A-Z > ( A-C ) > Botticelli, Sandro
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From Publishers Weekly
"There is no more radiant picture in European art than this," writes Lightbown of Botticelli's Birth of Venus . That painting, as well as the Primavera and other Botticelli masterpieces, have been newly cleaned in the past decade, so the radiance of their reproductions dazzle in this expanded revision of Lightbown's 1978 monograph. An absorbing text, fresh photographs of every autograph work and marvelous 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. All students of Botticelli should own this resplendent volume.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Lightbown's monograph . . . has long been considered the definitive text on Botticelli. A newly revised version just released updates the author's critical consideration of the artist's work, and presents new, fresh illustrations of works that have been cleaned in the past decade. . . . Even in reproduction these works have never looked so good. -- San Diego Tribune, 12/8/89
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Another life for Botticelli,
By Benny Antonini (Italy) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sandro Botticelli: Life and Work (Hardcover)
In the life of Sandro Botticelli, Lightbown does not remark the big season of secret science that linked several artists in and around Florence.This science that today we can call "esoterism" come from the recent middle age and increased in Florence his importance. The Great Lorenzo dei Medici was one of the most important men of this matter.
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4.8 out of 5 stars (5 customer reviews) 21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
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A beautiful book!,
By singer-songwriter - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sandro Botticelli: Life and Work (Hardcover)
This is fascinating book about the life of Botticelli and techniques he used. The reproductions are wonderful, including some close-ups of characters from selected paintings. I recently returned from Italy, and having viewed many of these paintings at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence makes the reading and the beautiful color plates throughout the book all the more enjoyable. I would highly recommend this book to fans of Renaissance art.
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Fantastic,
By Agnolo van Rijn "Crazy For Painting" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sandro Botticelli: Life and Work (Hardcover)
This book is worth the money if only for the reproductions. Lots of large plates with a lot of close ups as well. If you only want one book on Botticelli this would be a good one.
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Botticelli - life and Word,
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This review is from: Sandro Botticelli: Life and Work (Hardcover)
This is an amazing book. It was everything promised and so much more. We have spent hours enjoying the pictures. I have been to Italy and seen some of them in person. This book gives us the opportunity to study them in detail. The quality is outstanding and the book is perfect in every way.
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