9780236309306 - Botticelli von Lightbown, R.W. (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Poor. Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1550grams, ISBN:0236309307.

Zustand: MOLTO BUONO. NOTA:Timbri Ex Libris alle due sguardie. Sopraccoperte con lievi mende. Fioriture ai tagli. Interni molto buoni. / London, Paul Elek due volumi, completo, cm.28x21, pp.199, 67 illustrazioni in bianco e nero e 9 a colori; 230, 270 illustrazioni in bianco e nero, legature editoriali in tutta tela, sopraccoperte figurate a colori, Testo in inglese. This monumental two-volume set presents the most comprehensive study of Sandro Botticelli's life and oeuvre available in English. Volume I reconstructs Botticelli's biography and artistic trajectory within the political and religious upheavals of late fifteenth-century Florence, arguing for his central role in the visual culture of the Medici court and Savonarolan reform. Lightbown examines Botticelli's stylistic evolution, workshop practices, and intellectual milieu with scholarly precision and narrative clarity. Volume II offers a complete catalogue raisonne, documenting every known painting, drawing, and lost work with detailed provenance, technical notes, and critical commentary. The set commands enduring respect among art historians and collectors for its depth, authority, and elegant production. It remains essential for any serious library on Renaissance art. due volumi, completo,

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. English text.; 21 x 28.5 cm.; 2.8 kg.; Volume I: 231 pages with black and white illustrations. Volume II: 199 pages with black and white and colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The dust jacket show wear marks, edge wear, scuffs and scratches on the front cover, spine and back cover. The interior shows some wear marks throughout.; Many of those Botticelli paintings which have for centuries possessed immediate popular appeal are of subjects whose precise meanings or origins have presented problems for the scholar. This definitive study of Botticelli's life and work is based on completely fresh research and direct appraisal of the artist's widely scattered works. In the first volume, a comprehensive monograph, Ronald Lightbown relates Botticelli's paintings to the complex and contradictory culture of fifteenth-century Florence, a society which combined worldly pageantry with piety, classical learning with vernacular vigour. Many of the most puzzling enigmas of Botticelli's work are disentangled and newly researched facts about his sources and patrons throw light on the symbolic images in the paintings. Every aspect of Botticelli's art is examined: his many devotional works- frescoes, altarpieces, tondi - his portraits, his illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy, his secular paintings, his representations of classical myth. Scrupulous attention has been paid to detailed, accurate descriptions of all the major works, sweeping aside a long legacy of inaccurate commentary and subjective misinterpretation. The book begins by describing Botticelli's family, early life and apprenticeship to Fra Filippo Lippi. There follows a full discussion of the development of Botticelli's career: his emergence as an independent master; his stay in Rome to help fresco the newly completed Sistine Chapel at the Vatican; the commissions from the Medici and other prominent Florentine families for the mythological paintings that mark the climax of his achievement; and the intense, highly wrought paintings of his last years, which express Botticelli's reaction to the political upheavals of the 1490s and the apocalyptic prophesies of Savonarola. This authoritative reassessment of Botticelli's life and work concludes with a section of contemporary documents and records concerning the artist and his family. The Complete Catalogue complements and supports the monograph. It is the first full and detailed catalogue of the artist's autograph paintings and of the numerous pictures produced in his workshop and school and is based on much significant new research on the attributions of Botticelli's works. The chronology of Botticelli is notoriously one of the most difficult problems of art history; but new, firmly documented dates are supplied for a number of paintings and others are redated on the basis of style. The catalogue includes all his drawings and a new, corrected guide to his famous Dante illustrations. Works previously wrongly attributed to Botticelli and those that have been lost are listed, and there is a critical bibliography of the extensive literature on Botticelli.