Botticelli Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Sandro Botticelli Esides acknowledging my general indebtedness to Mr. Horne for the amount that I have derived, in statements of fact, from his exhaustive book on Botticelli, I have to thank him for his kindness to me in Florence. Among other benefits, I owe to him a visit, made in his company, to the Annunciation which he discovered in the chapel of the Corrigendi. From my conversations with him I anticipate that he will show more indulgence than others who know less about Botticelli to my dissent in certain points fi'om the conclusions at which he hintself has arrived. The purpose of the book being to estimate the work of Botticelli as far as possible as a contemporary fact, I have not elaborated these points of difference the chief of which in its effect upon my view of Botticelli is that I attach greater importance to certain of the later pictures which are generally neglected as being mere products of his school. I owe thanks also to my friend and colleague Mr. Eluc maclagan for criticism, as charitable as it was valuable, when the Introduction was in proof. I am. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Botticelli About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Life and Art of Sandro Botticelli Was kindly received by the public last autumn. On larger lines and with greater fullness of detail, I have here tried to give some account of Sandro Botticelli, both as the painter and the man; of his relations with the Medici and the Florentine humanists on the one hand, and of his connection with Savonarola and the Piagnone revival on the other. At the same time I have endeavoured to follow the course of his artistic training and development, and to enumerate and describe the works which, in the opinion of the best critics, may be attributed to this master with certainty. Although of late years much study has been devoted to Botticelli and his art, our knowledge of the great artist's history remains scanty and limited, and no complete record of his life can be given. But his personality and his works are both of them so attractive, and the interest which he inspires at the present time is so deep, that this study, incomplete and fragmentary as it necessarily is, may be acceptable to those who wish to gain a clearer knowledge of one of the most remark able painters of the Florentine Renaissance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Romance of Sandro Botticelli Woven From His Paintings The scientific history of Botticelli has been com piled, once and for all, by Mr. Herbert Horne and, save for the doubtful suggestion, Too little mind ful of the outward forms and Observances of religion, too deeply enamoured of the old pagan world of the senses, Botticelli may well have been, during no small part of his life, little light has been thrown on Sandro's personality. But here fiction may step in, and, by following the methods of the modern detective who reconstructs the scene of a crime, the writer may reconstruct the atmosphere in which Sandro moved and the persons who must have influenced him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Quattrocentisteria: How Sandro Botticelli Saw Simonetta in the Spring Sfie indeed remains, the beautiful Simonetta Vespucci; for 't is the glory of Art that nothing it touches is disannulled or lost. Site lives, even as the immortal women of Boccaccio live, though heart and brain alike are dust. And thus for ages dead and ages yet to come, Botticelli raised up a woman's fading flower-like face, and this we see to-day in his solemn vision of a fadeless Spring. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists In Leonardo's Treatise on Painting, only one contempo rary is named - Sandro Botticelli. The Pagan and Christian world mingle in the work of Botticelli; but the man himself belonged to an age that is past and gone - an age that flourished long before men recorded history. His best efforts seem to spring out of a heart that forgot all precedent, and arose, Venus-like, perfect and complete, from the unfathom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Sandro Botticelli: The Nativity, in the National Gallery, London Before a semi-circle of green trees rises a hillock Of striated rock. Upon the rock is set the thatched roof of a pent-house, the corners of which rest on severed tree trunks. A cave pierces the centre Of the rock, whence we look out on to the trees and field behind (fig. Outside the entrance to the cave is the kneeling figure of the Virgin, her head in profile and her fair hair and light blue cloak Offset against the grey flank of the ass. From the ground, supported on a pannier covered with a cloth, the Child, with one hand in His mouth and one leg raised, looks up at her; beside Him, wearing a saffron-coloured cloak, there sits St. Joseph, his head relaxed in sleep or contemplation and his face hidden by his hand (fig. To the left, before a hedge of Olives, kneel three men in pink, dull green and yellow robes, each with an olive wreath, their attention directed to the central scene by a pink-clad angel holding a spray Of olive in his extended hand (fig. On the right are two more kneeling figures, wearing the same wreaths and the russet and grey dresses proper to artisans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.