Sandro Botticelli : the drawings for Dante's Divine Comedy / Hein-Th. Schulze Altcappenberg ; with essays by Horst Bredekamp ... [and others]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schultze Altcappenberg, Hein-Th.

Contributor:

Botticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 1445-1510.

Bredekamp, Horst, 1947-

Kulturforum (Berlin, Germany).

Scuderie papali al Quirinale (Rome, Italy).

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Botticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 1445-1510--Exhibitions.

Botticelli, Sandro.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia--Illustrations--Exhibitions.

Dante Alighieri.

Botticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 1445-1510.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

357 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 x 31 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Royal Academy of Arts, [2000]

Summary:

In the 1480s, the great Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli was commissioned by Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici to make a series of drawings to illustrate Dante's Divine Comedy. Botticelli gave stunning visual form to the poet's epic journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, but the project was never completed and the sheets were scattered.

Now, more than 500 years after their creation, all 91 existing -- and very fragile -- vellum sheets will be shown together for the first time, in Berlin, Rome, and London. This book, which accompanies the exhibition, illustrates each of Botticelli's canto sheets in superb color, faced by a commentary on Botticelli's pictorial response to Dante's poem by Hein-Thomas Schulze Altcappenberg of the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin, where 84 of the sheets are permanently housed. Eight essays on Botticelli, the Medici, and the Divine Comedy complete this unprecedented volume.

Notes:

"First published on the occasion of the exhibition, 'Sandro Botticelli : the Drawings for Dante's Divine Comedy,' Ausstellungshallen am Kulturforum, Berlin, 15 April - 18 June, 2000, Scuderie Papali al Quirinale, Rome, 20 September - 3 December 2000, Scuderie Papali al Quirinale, Rome, 20 September - 3 December 2000, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 17 March - 10 June 2001"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-353) and index.

ISBN:

0810966336

0900946857

090094692x

OCLC:

45670120