Botticelli

Was beauty Sandro Botticelli’s true religion? The delicate Florentine boy left a goldsmith’s shop for the studio of a friar, seeking to express nature’s face in line and colour.

In Renaissance Florence, where Medici commissions and rival artists shaped the city’s ambitions, Botticelli had to find a language of his own. Henry Bryan Binns traces the painter’s early path from Fra Filippo Lippi’s lessons in emotion to the Pollajuolo brothers’ studies of physical force, influences that strengthened his hand without settling what his art should become. As Sandro’s work drew the notice of powerful patrons, classical subjects began to claim his imagination. How would he turn the pressures and possibilities of his age into a vision unmistakably his own?

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