Word: botticellis
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for 40 years," says Elayne Boosler, shaking her Botticelli curls, "because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions...
...idea that a portrait should be the "mirror of the soul" as well as a formal utterance about appearance and rank was not born with Titian; Leonardo, Botticelli, Durer and Van Eyck were all his elders, and in his youth he worked with Giorgione, the most shadowed and inward looking of Venetian quattrocento painters, on the fresco decorations of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi. Giorgione's ambition to paint people in the act of thinking, to invent signs for internal reflection as well as external show, was carried forward by Titian into works such as the Louvre's Man with...
What good is a Botticelli by another name? The British Museum offers a panoramic exhibit of fakes, including many that have fooled the experts and come close to equaling the originals...