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Record Nr.

UNINA9910773215203321

Autore

Debenedetti Ana

Titolo

Botticelli Past and Present

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : UCL Press, 2019

London : , : UCL Press, , 2019

ISBN

1-78735-462-8

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (332 p.)

Disciplina

820.8

Soggetti

Italy

English

c 1000 CE to c 1500

History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600

Individual artists, art monographs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The recent exhibitions dedicated to Botticelli around the world show, more than ever, the significant and continued debate about the artist. Botticelli Past and Present engages with this debate. The book comprises four thematic parts, spanning four centuries of Botticelli’s artistic fame and reception from the fifteenth century. Each part comprises a number of essays and includes a short introduction which positions them within the wider scholarly literature on Botticelli. The parts are organised chronologically beginning with discussion of the artist and his working practice in his own time, moving onto the progressive rediscovery of his work from the late eighteenth to the turn of the twentieth century, through to his enduring impact on contemporary art and design. Expertly written by researchers and eminent art historians and richly illustrated throughout, the broad range of essays in this book make a valuable contribution to Botticelli studies.