Botticelli and Renaissance Florence : masterworks from the Uffizi /

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Imprint:Minneapolis, MN : Minneapolis Institute of Art, [2022]
©2022
Description:xvii, 246 pages : color illustrations, maps, portraits, geneological table ; 31 cm
Language:English
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Format: Map Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12776853
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Other authors / contributors:Botticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 1445-1510, artist.
Frosinini, Cecilia, curator, editor, writer of added text.
McGarry, Rachel, curator, editor, writer of added text.
Luber, Katherine Crawford, 1961- writer of foreword.
Schmidt, Eike D., writer of foreword.
Minneapolis Institute of Art, issuing body, host institution.
Galleria degli Uffizi, issuing body.
ISBN:9780998587226
0998587222
Notes:Catalog from the exhibition held at Minneapolis Institute of Art, October 15, 2022-January 8, 2023.
"An exhibition organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Art and Gallerie degli Uffizi. Curated by Cecilia Frosinini and Rachel McGarry ... Contributions by Roberta Bartoli, Annamaria Bernacchioni, Rebekah Compton, Luba Freedman, Cecilia Frosinini, Matteo Gianeselli, Cristina Gnoni Mavarelli, Tom Henry, Rachel McGarry, Lorenza Melli, Alessandro Muscillo, Jonathan K. Nelson, Fabrizio Paolucci, Daniela Parenti, Nicoletta Pons, Tom Rassieur, Eike D. Schmidt, Carl Brandon Strehlke."--Title page verso.
Directors' foreword by Katherine Crawford Luber and Eike D. Schmidt.
Artists include: Leon Battista Alberti ; Baccio Baldini ; Bartolomeo di Giovanni ; Benedetto da Rovezzano ; Biagio d'Antonio Tucci ; Sandro Botticelli ; Francesco Botticini ; Lorenzo de Credi ; Dante Alighieri ; Marsilio Ficino ; Benedetto di Tommaso Ghirlandaio ; Domenico Ghirlandaio ; Jacopo del Sellaio ; Filippino Lippi ; Filippo Lippi ; Maso Finiguerra ; Cosimo de' Medici, known as Cosimo the Elder ; Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici ; Lorenzo de' Medici, known as il Magnifico ; Perugino ; Giovanni Pico della Mirandola ; Agnolo Poliziano ; Antonio del Pollaiuolo ; Piero del Pollaiuolo ; Cosimo Rosselli; Francesco Rosselli ; Girolamo Savonarola ; Luca Signorelli ; Francesco della Rovere, Pope Sixtus IV ; Giorgio Vasari ; Andrea de Michele, known as Verrocchio.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-234) and index.
Summary:In Renaissance Florence, artists saw art anew, inspired by ancient marbles and myths as well as the humanism of ruler and patron, Lorenzo de' Medici. At the center of it all was Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510), whose genius for transforming classical themes into wholly original art inspired new ideals of beauty. Now, in a remarkable partnership with the Uffizi Galleries, MIA is hosting a major exhibition exploring the fevered creativity that defined this time and place. Paintings, sculptures, and prints from MIA's collection will be shown alongside masterworks from the Uffizi, including rare paintings and drawings by Botticelli, such as his masterful "Pallas and the Centaur" (c. 1482); works by his teacher (Fra Filippo Lippi) and colleagues (Domenico Ghirlandaio, Cosimo Rosselli, Perugino); and ancient Greek and Roman marbles that the Florentine artists saw and studied. MIA is privileged to be the single stop for this exhibition, an enviable opportunity to see Uffizi stars that rarely travel outside Italy. Exhibition: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA (16.10.2022-08.01.2023).
Table of Contents:
  • Directors' foreword / Katherine Crawford Luber and Eike D. Schmidt
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • Notes to the reader
  • Map of Renaissance Florence
  • Medici family tree
  • Map of the Medici villas
  • Essays. Finding Sandro Botticelli / Rachel McGarry
  • Artists' workshops in Fifteenth-century Florence / Cecilia Frosinini
  • The San Marco sculpture garden and the origins of the Medici collection of classical marbles / Fabrizio Paolucci
  • The Adoration of the Magi as political iconography / Cecilia Frosinini
  • Botticelli's faces / Carl Brandon Strehlke
  • Catalogue. Art all'antica: Virtue, passion, and pleasure
  • The San Marco sculpture garden and antiquities in Renaissance Florence
  • Sacred beauty
  • The Renaissance interior: A setting of virtue and magnificence
  • From life: Florentine faces and people
  • Appendix A: Chronology of Sandro Botticelli,1445-1510 / Annamaria Bernacchioni
  • Appendix B: Artists' biographies.