The Drawings By Sandro Botticelli For Dante's Divine Comedy: After The Originals In The Berlin Museums And The Vatican
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few artistic collaborations across time are as magnificent as Sandro Botticelli's visual interpretation of Dante Alighieri's eternal masterpiece, and Kenneth Clark's landmark study brings this extraordinary body of work into breathtaking focus. The volume presents the complete series of Botticelli's illustrations for the Divine Comedy — those haunting, meticulously wrought drawings held in the Berlin Museums and the Vatican — offering readers an unparalleled opportunity to witness the Renaissance master's deeply personal engagement with Dante's cosmic journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Clark, one of the twentieth century's most authoritative voices in art history, guides the reader through Botticelli's visual language with characteristic lucidity and elegance, illuminating the theological, literary, and aesthetic dimensions that make these drawings a supreme achievement of the Italian Renaissance. His analysis uncovers the tension between Botticelli's lyrical line and the terrifying grandeur of Dante's verse, revealing an artist wrestling with the full moral and spiritual weight of one of Western literature's greatest poems. For scholars, collectors, and lovers of Renaissance art alike, this volume stands as an essential document — one that leaves the reader marvelling at what it means for a painter to truly read a poem.
Author: Kenneth Clark
Format: Hardback
Published: 1976, Harper & Row, Publishers
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few artistic collaborations across time are as magnificent as Sandro Botticelli's visual interpretation of Dante Alighieri's eternal masterpiece, and Kenneth Clark's landmark study brings this extraordinary body of work into breathtaking focus. The volume presents the complete series of Botticelli's illustrations for the Divine Comedy — those haunting, meticulously wrought drawings held in the Berlin Museums and the Vatican — offering readers an unparalleled opportunity to witness the Renaissance master's deeply personal engagement with Dante's cosmic journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Clark, one of the twentieth century's most authoritative voices in art history, guides the reader through Botticelli's visual language with characteristic lucidity and elegance, illuminating the theological, literary, and aesthetic dimensions that make these drawings a supreme achievement of the Italian Renaissance. His analysis uncovers the tension between Botticelli's lyrical line and the terrifying grandeur of Dante's verse, revealing an artist wrestling with the full moral and spiritual weight of one of Western literature's greatest poems. For scholars, collectors, and lovers of Renaissance art alike, this volume stands as an essential document — one that leaves the reader marvelling at what it means for a painter to truly read a poem.