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Botticelli: Life and Work

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This is fascinating book about the life of Botticelli and techniques he used. The reproductions are wonderful, including some close-ups of characters from selected paintings. I recently returned from Italy, and having viewed many of these paintings at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence makes the reading and the beautiful color plates throughout the book all the more enjoyable. I would highly recommend this book to fans of Renaissance art.

This book is worth the money if only for the reproductions. Lots of large plates with a lot of close ups as well. If you only want one book on Botticelli this would be a good one.

This is an amazing book. It was everything promised and so much more. We have spent hours enjoying the pictures. I have been to Italy and seen some of them in person. This book gives us the opportunity to study them in detail. The quality is outstanding and the book is perfect in every way.

For the same reasons already stated by those who have given it a five-star rating. I love looking through it over and over. I did an Artist study with my son, as part of our homeschool curriculum; Botticelli was one of them. The techniques he used never ceases to amaze me.

In the life of Sandro Botticelli, Lightbown does not remark the big season of secret science that linked several artists in and around Florence.
This science that today we can call "esoterism" come from the recent middle age and increased in Florence his importance.
The Great Lorenzo dei Medici was one of the most important men of this matter.