LECTURE 1 "Fra Lippo Lippi and the Young Botticelli"
Botticelli: Defining Grace
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Born in Florence around 1445, Botticelli was apprenticed to the painter Fra Lippo Lippi around 1461. It was from Lippi that Botticelli learned the art of graceful figures and intimate compositions. Lippi was so influential for Botticelli that it is often difficult to distinguish between them. After leaving Lippi’s workshop, Botticelli may have entered the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio or the Pollaiuolo brothers before beginning his own career as an independent artist.
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LECTURE 2 "Medici, Magi and Madonnas"
Botticelli’s graceful treatment of the Virgin Mary in painting resulted in some of the most beautiful figures in the history of art. Often accompanied by equally beautiful angels or saints, Botticelli’s Madonnas are usually idealized and often painted in the tondo format. It may have been Bottice...
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LECTURE 3 "The Roman Sojourn and the ...
In 1481, Botticelli was sent to Rome by Lorenzo “il Magnifico” de’ Medici to decorate the walls of Pope Sixtus IV’s new chapel, better known as the Sistine Chapel. Along with Perugino, Ghirlandaio, Rosselli, and Signorelli, Botticelli would produce one of the most important fresco cycles of the e...
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LECTURE 4 "The Mythologies"
When Botticelli painted the “Primavera” and “Birth of Venus” around 1480, he opened a veritable Pandora’s Box. No longer were Renaissance artists limited to simply dressing Christian saints in togas and sandals, they could now gradually introduce the very literature, philosophy, and religion of t...
