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Botticelli : heroines and heroes

Title
Botticelli : heroines and heroes / edited by Nathaniel Silver.
Publication
London : Paul Holberton Publishing, 2019.

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Additional Authors
  • Silver, Nathaniel E.
  • Botticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 1445-1510.
  • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, host institution.
Description
128 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm
Summary
Botticelli: Heroines and Heroes explores the work of the legendary Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, focusing on a genre called spalliera that Botticelli employed with staggering originality. The catalgue and exhibition, held at the Gardner Museum, Boston, include significant loans from European and American public collections. Accompanying the exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, this catalogue explores the work of legendary Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli (about 1444-1510). Today the alluring and enigmatic Primavera forms the cornerstone of his modern fame, but its familiarity belies distant origins in the heady intellectual environment of Laurentian Florence and the residences of its moneyed elite. Part of a genre called spalliera, so named for their installation around shoulder (spalla) height, this type of painting introduced beautiful, strange, and disturbing images into lavish Florentine homes. With staggering originality, Botticelli reinvented ancient subjects for the domestic interior, paneling patrician bedrooms with moralizing tales and offering erudite instruction to their influential inhabitants. Exhibition: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA (14.02.- 19.05.2019).
Alternative Title
Heroines and heroes : Botticelli
Subjects
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • First published to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, February 14 through May 19th, 2019.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
  • 9781911300618
  • 191130061X
  • 9781911300649
  • 1911300644
OCLC
  • on1084351450
  • SCSB-9326026
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library