Botticelli
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Description
Henry Bryan Binns wrote this Botticelli for the Masterpieces in Colour series, published in London in 1907. Eight reproductions in colour carry the book. The first plate, used as frontispiece, is The Birth of Venus from the Uffizi. Binns calls it the supreme achievement of Botticelli's genius, painted about 1485 after the artist's return from Rome.
The canvas, he notes, measures five feet eight inches by nine feet one, so the figures stand nearly life size. No reproduction can match the delicacy of the original, he warns. Spring follows as the second plate, then portraits and Madonnas, including the Madonna of the Magnificat and the Madonna of the Pomegranate. The series put small, cheap colour art books into ordinary homes before colour printing was common.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 72 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |