Word: botticelli
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Paintings by Degas, Botticelli, Matisse, Giotto, Velasquez, Sargent and Holbein adorn medieval tapestries, which in turn cover the walls of the Northern European Hall, the Spanish Chapel the Chinese Loggia and the Dutch Drawing Room. Watercolors by Turner and masterpieces by Rembrandt peek out from behind neoclassical chaises lounges. Writings by Napoleon, T.S. Eliot and Sarah Bernhardt fill all nooks and crannies...
...suggested that architecture adds weightness or gravitas to a science and demonstrated this by claiming that furniture and architectural fragments in Botticell's "Mother and Child Jesus" made the scene less domestic and more dignified. Perhaps more convincing was his point that the prominent buildings in Botticelli's "The Madonna of the Eucharist" creates perspective in the painting and enables the painter to place characters in appropriate locations, thereby mixing humanism and realism Whereas before the importance of figures are placed in the foreground...
There is nothing more archetypally Italian than Botticelli's Venus. With undulating golden locks cloaking a voluptuous nude body, she stares elusively into space from the suggestive pink bloom of her shell. It is only fitting that this piece of ready-made Italian ambiente adorns the walls of the new incarnation of Alloro...
...knick-knacks accessorize the shelves with prim blue and white patterned sparkle, miniature paintings of cherubs in pastel colors decorate the walls. The menu has been toned down along with the decor. The prices have taken a nosedive, and the cuisine has evolved from trendy, Italiannate-Mediterraanean-inspired to Botticelli-traditional Italian. Fortunately, there is some continuity with the Alloro of yesteryear. The quality of the food remains superior. Simplified, but still delicious...
...sets before you a sparsely documented man of whom enough will never be known: a devout religious painter who lived through a time of doctrinal crisis in the church, which left visible marks on his already self-reproachful and even morbid personality; a link between the exaggerated graces of Botticelli (who died when Lotto was around 30) and the learned artificialities of Mannerism; an Italian who saw the point of Netherlandish art and Hieronymus Bosch along with Germans like Altdorfer and, especially, Durer, not long after Durer himself was being changed by Venice...