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    Botticelli
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    Botticelli

    By Henry Bryan Binns

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Botticelli - Henry Bryan Binns

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Botticelli, by Henry Bryan Binns

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      Title: Botticelli

      Author: Henry Bryan Binns

      Release Date: June 7, 2012 [EBook #39942]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BOTTICELLI ***

      Produced by Al Haines

      MASTERPIECES

      IN COLOUR

      EDITED BY

      T. LEMAN HARE

      BOTTICELLI

      PLATE I.—THE BIRTH OF VENUS. From the

      tempera on canvas in the Uffizi. (Frontispiece)

      This picture is generally regarded as the supreme achievement of Botticelli's genius. It was probably painted about 1485, after his return from Rome. The canvas measures 5 ft 8 in. by 9 ft 1 in., so that the figures are nearly life size. No reproduction can do justice to the exquisite delicacy of expression in the original. Something of the same quality will be found in the Mars and Venus in the National Gallery, which was probably painted about the same time. The two figures on the left are usually described as Zephyrus and Zephyritis, representing the south and south-west winds: that on the right may be one of the Hours of Homer's Hymn, or possibly the Spring.

      PLATE I.—THE BIRTH OF VENUS.

      BOTTICELLI

      BY HENRY BRYAN BINNS

      ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT

      REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR

      LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK

      NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES CO.

      1907

      The plates are printed by BEMROSE DALZIEL, LTD., Watford

      The text at the BALLANTYNE PRESS, Edinburgh

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      Plate

          I. The Birth of Venus . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece           From the tempera on canvas in the Uffizi

         II. Spring           From the tempera on wood in the Florence Academy

        III. Portrait of a Man           From the panel in the Florence Academy

         IV. The Madonna of the Magnificat, known also as the Coronation of the Virgin

                 From the tondo in the Uffizi

          V. The Madonna of the Pomegranate           From the tondo in the Uffizi

         VI. The Annunciation           From the panel in the Uffizi

        VII. The Virgin and Child with St. John and an Angel           From the panel in the National Gallery

      VIII. The Virgin and Child by an Open Window           From the panel in the National Gallery

      From Florence, in the second half of the fifteenth century, men looked into a new dawn. When the Turk took Constantinople in 1443, the glory that was Greece was carried to her by fleeing scholars, and she became for one brilliant generation the home of that Platonic worship of beauty and philosophy which had been so long an exile from the hearts of men. I say Platonic, because it was especially to Plato, the mystic, that she turned, possessed still by something of the mystical intensity of her own great poet, himself an exile. When, in 1444, Pope Eugenius left her to return to Rome, Florence was ready to welcome this new wanderer, the spirit of the ancient world. And the almost childish wonder with which she received that august guest is evident in all the marvellous work of the years that followed, in none more than in that of Sandro Botticelli.

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