Word: botticelli
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SISTER WENDY Americans love their nuns--singing nuns, flying nuns, even television nuns who discuss sex and Botticelli...
...Goodmans tracked another painting, Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap, a canvas attributed to Botticelli, to New York, where it was sold by Sotheby's for $690,000 on Jan. 30, even though Kline says he had earlier informed Sotheby's, in writing, of the family's claim to the painting. Sotheby's later helped arrange a six-figure confidential settlement between the Italian seller of the work and the Goodmans, but got to keep its commission of more than $100,000 on the original sale. "We sell thousands of works of art every year and check...
...kitsch. Sorry, guys: the Oscars; masters of recycling over at the Gardner, Botticelli for the first time all in one room; Herb Ritts; "Cantata 2000" (well, you either loved it or hated...
...name Botticelli summons up visions of Venus on the half-shell and elegantly-rendered deities of other kinds, but the view inside this exhibition is a bit disappointing. The exhibit brings together five paintings by Botticelli himself, three from his workshop and four prints derived from his designs. Sadly, the attempted contrast between Botticelli's early painting style and his style in the later years of his life is not readily apparent to the untrained...
Only after reading the accompanying texts is one able to recognize that the idealized and softly modeled figures of his earlier career become more agitated and tense in his later work. Again in the text, we are told that the figures gain "a more passionate directness of emotion" in Botticelli's later works--but that again is an idea more supported by the commentary than the artwork itself. Following such a quick lesson in Renaissance art, most visitors come out of the gallery feeling not only overwhelmed by so many facts and so much commentary, but also a bit disillusioned...