Masters of italian art Botticelli by alexandra grömling

Masters of italian art botticelli by alexandra grömling & tilman lingesleben " of many of botticelli's women and youths one might say that they have just awoken as from a dream to consciousness of the outside world, and although they actively devote themselves to the outside world, dream images still echo through their conscious minds " botticelli otticelli succeeded in an entirely unique manner in translating the ideals of humanism, as propagated by poets and philosophers, into the medium of the fine arts he made visible the idealized beauty that filled the neoplatonists in marsilio ficino's circle with such enthusiasm in his clear, refined painting style he created the most poetic religious and mythological scenes of his age during the second half of the 15th century, the famous allegorical main works produced for the medici ruler lorenzo il magnifico made sandro botticelli the most important interpreter of the artistic and cultural flowering that was the renaissance condition excellent inscription to previous owner hardcover published in 1998 könemann i s b n : 3 8290 0240 8 length 120 pages collection in forest town or can be couriered at buyers expense