Botticelli drawings
2023
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Sandro Botticelli (ca. 1445-1510) is one of the most beloved artists of the Italian Renaissance, especially known for his paintings La Primavera and The Birth of Venus. A lesser-known aspect of his career is his work as a draftsman. His drawings are extraordinary, yet their rarity and unconventional style have kept them from being more widely recognised. 'Botticelli Drawings' examines this aspect of Botticelli's work. It considers the foundational role that drawings played in Botticelli's oeuvre in terms of his aesthetic, practice, and process - from his earliest recorded drawings made under the master Fra Filippo Lippi to the experimental and expressive designs for his final paintings. This catalogue reunites the majority of Botticelli's surviving sheets, including several new attributions, discussed in detailed object entries.
Main title:
Botticelli drawings / Furio Rinaldi ; contributions by Cecilia Frosinini, Lorenza Melli, Johnathan K. Nelson.
Author:
Botticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 1445-1510Rinaldi, Furio, organizerFine Arts Museums of San Francisco, host institution
Imprint:
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2023.
Collation:
320 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 27 cm
Notes:
Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 18th November 2023-11th February 2024.
ISBN:
9780300272031 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
2653480
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