Botticelli: Heroines and Heroes

Botticelli: Heroines and Heroes

Botticelli: Heroines and Heroes explores the work of the legendary Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, focusing on a genre called spalliera that Botticelli employed with staggering originality. The catalgo and exhibition, held at the Gardner Museum, Boston, include significant loans from European and American public collections.

Accompanying the exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (14 February â€“ 19 May 2019), this catalog explores the work of legendary Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli (about 1444â€“1510). Today the alluring and enigmatic Primavera forms the cornerstone of his modern fame, but its familiarity belies distant origins in the heady intellectual environment of Laurentian Florence and the residences of its moneyed elite. Part of a genre called spalliera, so named for their installation around shoulder (spalla) height, this type of painting introduced beautiful, strange, and disturbing images into lavish Florentine homes. With staggering originality, Botticelli reinvented ancient subjects for the domestic interior, paneling patrician bedrooms with moralizing tales and offering erudite instruction to their influential inhabitants.

At the center of this exhibition is a spalliera reunited, the Gardnerâ€™s Tragedy of Lucretia and its companion The Tragedy of Virginia (Accademia Carrara, Bergamo). Together with extraordinary loans of the same genre from European and American public collections, Heroines and Heroes explores Botticelliâ€™s revolutionary approach to antiquity â€“ from ancient Roman to early Christian â€“ and offers a new perspective on his late career masterpieces.

Catalog essays address Botticelliâ€™s spalliera (Nathaniel Silver), their violence (Scott Nethersole), his textual sources (Elsa Filosa), and rediscovery in Gilded Age Boston (Patricia Lee Rubin). Entries include new insights for each work and up-to-date bibliographies, while a special section features archival materials devoted to Gardnerâ€™s pioneering acquisition of the first Botticelli in America.
Country USA
Brand Wiley
Manufacturer Paul Holberton Publishing
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2019-01-25
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781911300618

Country	USA
Brand	Wiley
Manufacturer	Paul Holberton Publishing
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2019-01-25
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781911300618

Botticelli: Heroines and Heroes

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