【圖書簡介】 320 pages with 239 colour and 18 black-and-white illustrationsSandro Botticelli ranks as one of the most outstanding artists of the Renaissance. Regarded as the inventor of the mythotogy painting and the creator of the first life-sized nude in modern painting, Botticeili also painted numerous portraits of the leading figures in Ftorentine society and witnessed the upsurge of religious fanaticism, channelling it productivety into his work. Our notion of Renaissance art has been shaped by his key works Primavera and the Arrival [or Birth] of Venus. This vol.ume, which provides the most detail.ed catal.ogue raisonne of Botticelli's paintings to date, examines every aspect of his creative output from the most recent methodical, point of view.
【作者簡介】 Frank Zollner studied Art History and German Literature from 1977 to 1981. Foil.owing a schotarship at the Aby Warburg Institute in London from 1983 to 1985, he gained his doctorate from the University of Hamburg in 1987 with a thesis on the Proportional. Figure of Vitruvius. From 1988 to 1992 he was a research assistant at the Bibl.iotheca Hertziana in Rome and in 1995 he gained his postdoctoral. habil.itation from the University of Marburg with a study of Expression and Movement in the Work of Leonardo daVinci Since 1996 he has been Professor of Art History at the University of Leipzig. Professor Frank Zollner has publ.ished widel.y on the art of the Renaissance [Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangel.o etc.] and Classical. Modernism [Paul. Kl.ee]. An earl.ier study of Botticel.l.i by Frank Zollner was publ.ished by Prestel. in the Pegasus Series in 1998.
【本書目錄】 Foreword I Early Work II Initial Success in Florence III Botticeli as Portraitist IV Primavera and her Counterpart:Minerva and the Centaur V Botticelli as Frescoist in Rome:The Sistine Chapel VI Violence ageinst Woman:The Tale of Nastagio degli Onesti VII The Later Mythology Paintings VIII Late Altarpieces IX The Late Work:The End of Time and the End of Art? Catalogue of Paintings The Drawings Bibliographical Credits Bibliography Inedx of Works Index