Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance by

Description: Botticelli's Secret by Joseph Luzzi Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A Guardian Book of the Day "Brilliantly conceived and executed, Botticellis Secret is a riveting search for buried treasure."—Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve Publisher Description Some five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created works of unearthly beauty. A star of Florences art world, he was commissioned by a member of the citys 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. Yet after a lifetime of creating masterpieces including Primavera and The Birth of Venus, Botticelli declined into poverty and obscurity. His Dante project remained unfinished. Then the drawings vanished for over four hundred years. The once famous Botticelli himself was forgotten. The nineteenth-century rediscovery of Botticellis Dante drawings brought scholars and art lovers to their knees: this work embodied everything the Renaissance had come to mean. From Botticellis metaphorical rise from the dead in Victorian England to the emergence of eagle-eyed connoisseurs like Bernard Berenson and Herbert Horne in the early twentieth century, and even the rescue of precious art during World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the posthumous story of Botticellis Dante drawings is, if anything, even more dramatic than their creation. A combination of artistic detective story and rich intellectual history, Botticellis Secret shows not only how the Renaissance came to life, but also how Botticellis art helped bring it about-and, most important, why we need the Renaissance and all that it stands for today. Author Biography Joseph Luzzi is the Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature at Bard College and an award-winning writer, teacher, and scholar of Italian culture. His latest book, Botticellis Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance was shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa Societys Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize and was selected as a New Yorker Best Book of 2022. He lives in New Yorks Hudson Valley. Details ISBN 1324066016 ISBN-13 9781324066019 Title Botticelli's Secret Author Joseph Luzzi Format Paperback Year 2023 Pages 352 Publisher WW Norton & Co GE_Item_ID:157538859; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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