Botticelli's Secret - Joseph Luzzi
Botticelli's Secret - Joseph Luzzi Some five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created works of unearthly beauty. Yet after a lifetime of creating masterpieces…
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Botticelli's Secret - Joseph Luzzi
Some five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created works of unearthly beauty. Yet after a lifetime of creating masterpieces including Primavera and The Birth of Venus, Botticelli declined into poverty and obscurity. 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.
Then the drawings vanished for over four hundred years. His Dante project remained unfinished. The once famous Botticelli