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Botticelli’s Secret
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The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
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Artikel-Nr:
9781324004011
Veröffentl:
2022
Erscheinungsdatum:
25.10.2022
Seiten:
352
Autor:
Joseph Luzzi
Gewicht:
535 g
Format:
218x145x35 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
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.