Botticelli past and present. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ana Debenedetti, Caroline Elam.
• Editors: Debenedetti, Ana; Elam, Caroline, 1945-
• Other Names: Victoria and Albert Museum, host institution.
• Contents: Introduction; Ana Debenedetti, Victoria and Albert Museum; ; Part 1: Botticelli in his own time ; Introduction; Michelle O’Malley, Warburg Institute ; 1. Sandro Botticelli and the birth of modern portraiture; Patrizia Zambrano, Università degli Studi del PiemonteOrientale ; 2. Botticelli’s Portrait of a Lady known as Smeralda Bandinelli:a technical study; Nicola Costaras, Victoria and Albert Museum andClare Richardson, Courtauld Institute ; 3. Classicism and invention: Botticelli’s mythologies in our timeand their time; Paul Holberton, independent scholar ; 4. Jacopo del Sellaio’s adaptation of the Primavera; Jerzy Miziołek, Museum of the University of Warsaw ; ; Part 2: The Botticelli effect; Introduction ; Julius Bryant, Victoria and Albert Museum ; 5. Whigs and primitives: Dante and Botticelli in England fromJonathan Richardson to John Flaxman; Mark Evans, Victoria and Albert Museum ; 6. Befriending Botticelli: psychology and connoisseurship atthe fin de siècle; Francesco Ventrella, University of Sussex ; 7. A woman’s touch, Michael Field, Botticelli and queer desire; Anna Gruetzner Robins, University of Reading ; ; Part 3: Botticelli between art history and connoisseurship; Introduction; Caroline Elam, Warburg Institute ; 8. Crowe and Cavalcaselle on Botticelli: new results; Donata Levi, University of Udine ; 9. Why Botticelli? Aby Warburg’s search for a new approachto Quattrocento Italian art; Claudia Wedepohl, Warburg Institute ; 10. ‘A Japanese Critic on Botticelli’: fragmentation anduniversality in Yashiro’s 1925 monograph; Jonathan K. Nelson, Syracuse University, Florence ; 11. Jacques Mesnil’s Botticelli; Michel Hochmann, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris (EPHE, PSL) ; ; Part 4: Botticelli nowIntroduction ; Stefan Weppelmann, Gemäldegalerie, Kunsthistorisches MuseumWien ; 12. Ninfa fluida (a post-scriptum); Georges Didi-Huberman, Ecole des Hautes Etudes enSciences Sociales, Paris ; 13. Into the abyss. On Salvador Dalì’s Dream of Venus; Riccardo Venturi, Académie de France, Villa Medici, Rome ; 14. Giving an edge to the beautiful line: Botticelli referenced in theworks of contemporary artists to address issues of gender andglobal politics; Gabriel Montua, Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museenzu Berlin
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : UCL Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
• Subjects: 759.5; Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses; Appreciation -- Congresses; Influence -- Congresses
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781787354623; 9781787354630
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