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When: February 13 2024, 16:30 To 20:30 - Where: Italian Cultural Institute San Francisco - Free Admission | Registration required Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus is one of the great masterpieces of the Renaissance, a painting that has become synonymous with it. However, it is far from being the serene picture it is often taken to be. In today’s lec...

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A painting by the 15th-century master Sandro Botticelli, recorded as missing since the 1980s, has been found at a home in southern Italy. The depiction of the Virgin Mary and infant Christ was discovered in a home in the town of Gragnano, near Naples, according to the Carabinieri Cultural Heritage Protection Unit of Naples.  The painting by the art...

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November 19, 2023 – February 11, 2024. Legion of Honor - Rosekrans Court: Lincoln Park. 100 34th Avenue (at Clement Street), San Francisco, CA. Botticelli Drawings is the first exhibition ever dedicated to the drawings of Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli (ca. 1445 – 1510). Exploring the foundational role drawing played in Botticelli’s work, the...

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Botticelli Drawings is the first exhibition ever dedicated to the drawings of Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli (ca. 1445 – 1510). Exploring the foundational role drawing played in Botticelli’s work, the exhibition traces his artistic journey, from studying under maestro Fra Filippo Lippi (c. 1406 – 1469) to leading his own workshop in Florence....

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Sandro Botticelli was a renowned Italian painter of the Renaissance who had a distinctive style of depicting hair in his portraits of women. He is best known for his iconic painting, The Birth of Venus, that shows the goddess arriving at the shore after her birth, when she had emerged from the sea fully-grown, ankle-length hair a glorious mass of w...

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It is probably safe to assume that Italian artist Sandro Botticelli never imagined Venus—the love goddess featured in his 15th-century masterpieces “The Birth of Venus” and “Primavera”—eating spaghetti or wearing shorts in front of the Roman Colosseum. But a new marketing campaign by Italy’s tourism ministry has turned the ancient deity into a “vir...

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In the beginning, it was a project to illustrate all 100 cantos of what is arguably the greatest of all European poems. Then it was a magnificent portfolio of unfinished drawings hidden away for centuries. Then, in 1882, a shrewd German scholar orchestrated the purchase of 85 of them from a London bookseller and packed them off to Berlin as part of...

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Primavera also known as ‘Spring’ is a large panel painting done by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli. Although it is not clear when the painting was done (during the later 1470s or early 1480s), it is known as one of the most written about and controversial paintings and also is allegedly the sister or ‘pair’ of the painting The Bir...

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Works by Sandro Botticelli, one of the most revered, culturally omnipresent artists in European history, aren’t the first thing you see when you enter the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s exhibition “Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi.” He’s relegated to the second room of the show bearing his name.  Instead, the new exh...

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When: Wednesday, November 09, 2022 From 6:00 pm To 7:00 pm - Where: Istituto Italiano di Cultura - NY - Entrance : Free - Book presentation and conference by Joseph Luzzi Professor of Comparative Literature Faculty Member, Italian Studies Some five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created works of unearthly beauty....

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