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'...Completely engrossing...this is a volume that will delight for years to come.' --Antiques Magazine, October 15, 2005
'Yes, it is expensive, but what price beauty?' --The Royal Academy Magazine, Winter 2005
'Yes, it is expensive, but what price beauty?' --The Royal Academy Magazine, Winter 2005
The Royal Academy Magazine, Winter 2005
'Yes, it is expensive, but what price beauty?'
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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I received this enormous book for christmas and when i opened it and flicked through it was like looking at the paintings first hand. The illustrations are fantastically clear and it provides detailed images that you probably would not be able to see in the gallery.
It's definitely worth the money if you love the art of 15th-Century Florence and in particular Botticelli!
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21 of 26 people found the following review helpful
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31 Oct 2007
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I must disagree with one of the previous reviewers who said that the quality of the photographs were good. For a book of this size and hence, I assume, quality, they are really terribly poor. If you are not sure what I am talking about, just compare it to the gigantic tome on Leonardo Da Vinci from Taschen, which comes at about the same price, is about three times as thick, and has truly incredible reproductions where every crackle in the paint is visible. On the other hand, the Botticellis seems slightly out of focus so that you do not get a feel of the quality of the paint. Look before you buy.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Great, Exceptional, Beautifully Executed HD Images, Fascinating Text.
6 May 2012
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
There are many Botticelli books floating around to remind us how far we have progressed in digital photography and the reproduction of art in books. Nothing I have seen comes close to the exceptional and unbelievably generous quality of these reproductions which have given me unexpected insight into the human hand that produced them. The text, while sometime tedious in its effort to draw sweeping generalization about the artist and patron agenda, and attributing intellectual literary sources to explain the iconography and symbolism behind the details, nonetheless brings to life the artist and his atelier in a way I find endlessly fascinating. What this book lacks, from the point of view of an ignorant artist like myself, is technical details behind how these works were logistically produced from raw materials and the naked eye. It would be nice if once in a while the scholarly critics stepped aside and gave voice to master craftsmen or artisan specializing in producing these kinds of paintings, or even the excellent people we do not hear about who painstakingly restore these painting from 600 years of pollution or neglect.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Comprehensive
22 Feb 2011
Format:Hardcover
If you love Primavera or the Birth of Venus, this book is for you. The writing can be a little academic at times-what you would expect from a monograph-but it's easy to read. You will get a little bit of art criticism/art theory (i.e.detailed explanations of the creative process on several paintings; inspiration vs execution); some socio-political context with (the Medicis, Savanarola); and more than anything, an awesome coffee book with oversize pages- a feast to the eyes. The last 90 pages is comprehensive catalog of paintings & drawings attributed to Botticelli, so art geeks will specially enjoy this section.
PS - Do not miss the different versions of Simonetta Vespucci by Botticelli & his workshop.
PS - Do not miss the different versions of Simonetta Vespucci by Botticelli & his workshop.
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