The Green Places of Fra Filippo Lippi and Sandro Botticelli

Author(s):  
Rebekah Compton
Keyword(s):  
2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 288-289
Author(s):  
Samuel M. Lam
Keyword(s):  

Author(s):  
H. Ashrafian

Abstract Purpose The Primavera is considered amongst the greatest and controversial artistic masterpieces worldwide painted by renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli. The aim was to identify any underlying medical foundations for the painting. Methods Observational study. Results The painting reveals, a ‘butterfly’ malar rash, bilateral ptosis and a clear neck swelling consistent with a goitre in the figure of Flora. This could be explained by concomitant Graves’ disease and systemic lupus erythematosus, or other presentations of multiple autoimmune syndrome. Conclusion These findings highlight the likely presentation of the earliest pictorial depictions of thyroid disease with systemic lupus erythematosus and emphasize the exactitude of depiction demonstrated by Botticelli in renaissance era.


Acta Poética ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 17 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Annunziata Rossi
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Sandro Boticelli neoplatónico


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-276
Author(s):  
Daniela Queiroz Campos ◽  
Maria Bernardete Ramos Flores

Resumo: O texto faz análise da construção corpórea renascentista abordada, sobretudo, nas obras de dois historiadores da arte: Aby Warburg e Georges Didi-Huberman. Apresentam-se, como imagens mote, as pinturas de Sandro Botticelli. O estudo parte do impenetrável corpo branco de O Nascimento de Vênus e problematiza o horror da imagem, aparentemente, apenas marcada pelo pudor. Warburg e Didi-Huberman discutem o pathos dionisíaco na imagem a partir dos textos míticos de Homero e Poliziano. Por fim, disserta-se acerca da imagem de História de Nastagio degli Onesti com o intento de considerar o corpo aberto encoberto por todo corpo fechado no Renascimento italiano das artes.


2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-15
Author(s):  
Gordon Alt

Fifty exceptional works of Andrea del Verrocchio (1435-1488) are on exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. This important exhibit has sculpture, paintings and drawings of one of the most important Renaissance Masters of the fourteenth century. While considered foremost a master sculptor along with Donatello and Michelangelo, he was also noted for his important innovations in painting. As teacher, his workshop was the most important in Florence, and included the young Leonardo da Vinci, Pietro Perugino and Sandro Botticelli. His David and Boy with Dolphin are just of few of the masterpieces included in this important exhibition, which covers a full range of his contributions and will remain on view until January 12, 2020. This is the only opportunity to see this powerful collection in this country as it returns immediately to Italy.


The Art Book ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 15a-15a
Author(s):  
ELEANOR ROBBINS

Aethiopica ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 121-135
Author(s):  
Marco Bonechi

As proposed by several scholars, among the many modern on-lookers depicted on the walls of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, foreign diplomats are also portrayed: e.g., the Portuguese ambassador and the Florentine emissaries. In the present paper it is suggested that portraits of four of the six members of the momentous Ethiopian delegation – which was headed by Antonio, chaplain of aṣe Ǝskǝndǝr, and arrived at Rome in the first half of November 1481 – may be identified in two scenes, i.e. the Temptation of Moses by Sandro Botticelli and the Crossing of the Red Sea by Biagio d’Antonio Tucci. The paper focuses on the relationship between the visual representation of these four men – Antonio being most probably included – and two contemporary literary works: the treatise by Paride de Grassi on the ambassadors to the Roman curia and the writing by Andreas Trapezuntius on the Roman political situation at the end of 1481 respectively. Such  topics as the genuflexion of the Ethiopians and the content of Sixtus IV with the Ethiopian embassy are dealt with. The importance of the suggested identifications for the problematic chronology of the frescoes is also discussed, and so a few other aspects of the two narrative scenes.


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