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Botticelli's secret : the lost drawings and the rediscovery of the Renaissance by Joseph Luzzi is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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“Brilliantly conceived and executed, Botticelli's Secret is a riveting search for buried treasure.” ―Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve Some five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created works of unearthly beauty. A star of Florence’s art world, he was commissioned by a member of the city’s powerful Medici family to execute a near-impossible project: to illustrate all one hundred cantos of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, the ultimate visual homage to that “divine” poet. This sparked a gripping encounter between poet and artist, between the religious and the secular, between the earthly and the evanescent, recorded in exquisite drawings by Botticelli that now enchant audiences worldwide. Yet after a lifetime of creating masterpieces including Primavera and The Birth of Venus , Botticelli declined into poverty and obscurity. His Dante project remained unfinished. Then the drawings vanished for over four hundred years. The once famous Botticelli himself was forgotten. The nineteenth-century rediscovery of Botticelli’s Dante drawings brought scholars and art lovers to their knees: this work embodied everything the Renaissanc
Who reads Botticelli's secret : the lost drawings and the rediscovery of the Renaissance?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Joseph Luzzi
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781324004011
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, European History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (156 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
