Sandro Botticelli:
The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1478/1482, tempera and oil on panel,
26 ¾ x 40 3/16” (68 x 102 cm), National Gallery of Art, Washington,
D.C., USA.
The Birth of Venus, c. 1482, tempera on canvas, 5’ 9” x 9’ 2”
(1.75 x 2.79 m), Galleria degli Uf¿ zi, Florence, Italy.
Calumny of Apelles, 1490s, tempera on panel, 24 ½ x 36”
(60.96 x 91.4 cm), Galleria degli Uf¿ zi, Florence, Italy.
Coronation of the Virgin, c. 1488–90, tempera on panel, 12’ 5” x 8’ 6”
(3.78 x 2.59 m), Galleria degli Uf¿ zi, Florence, Italy.
Lamentation, c. 1495–1500, tempera on panel, 54 ½ x 82”
(137.16 x 208 cm), Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.
Mars and Venus, c. 1475–78, tempera and oil on panel, 27 ¼ x 68 ¼”
(69.2 x 173.4 cm), National Gallery, London, Great Britain.
Mystic Nativity, 1500, tempera on canvas, 42 ¼ x 29 ½”
(108.6 x 74.9 cm), National Gallery, London, Great Britain.
Primavera, c. 1477–78, tempera on panel, 6’ 8” x 10’ 4” (2 x 3.14 m),
Galleria degli Uf¿ zi, Florence, Italy.Deimling, Sandro Botticelli, 1444/45–1510.
Lightbown, Sandro Botticelli.
- How does Botticelli’s work contrast with the earlier painting of
Masaccio? How has your impression of Botticelli’s work changed since
listening to this lecture?
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