Botticelli reimagined
By: [edited by] Mark Evans and Stefan Weppelmann ; with Ana Debenedetti and Ruben Rebmann ; and Mary McMahon and Gabriel Montua
Contributors: Botticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 1445-1510; Victoria and Albert Museum
Publisher: V & A Publishing
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9781851778706
Subjects: Influence; Renaissance Painting; Modern Art; Exhibitions
Description: "The Florentine painter Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) is one of the greatest artists of all time. Renowned for the iconic Birth of Venus and Primavera, his work has become part of our collective visual memory, influencing product development, fashion design and artists as diverse as Andy Warhol, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, René Magritte and Jeff Koons. But Botticelli's fame today was by no means a foregone conclusion. Quickly forgotten after his death, he was only rediscovered as an artist in the nineteenth century -- and much of what we know of his work has been pieced together from fragmentary evidence; only three of his works are signed or documented. Since then, ''Botticelli'' has been interpreted in many different ways, and has led to many questions. How does a painter acquire international fame? What made Botticelli a pop icon? Why are his works considered timeless? What is it that makes him so ''European'' that his Venus appears on the 10 cent coin? What we can say -- safely -- is that Botticelli, more than any other Old Master, inspired and continues to inspire modern and contemporary art." -- Publisher's description
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 5 March 2016 - 3 July 2016.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 338-350) and index.
Table of contents: title: Sandro Botticelli  -- Giorgio Vasari; title: Botticelli and the Bottega  -- Caroline Campbell; title: Botticelli :; title: between neoplatonism and Savonarola  -- Ana Debenedetti; title: The portrait of a lady known as Smeralda Bandinelli  -- Mark Evans; title: The story of Botticelli's drawings for Dante's Divine Comedy  -- Dagmar Korbacher; title: The critical fortunes of "Vasari's Botticelli" in the nineteenth century  -- Ulrich Rehm; title: Botticelli enters the museum :; title: the rediscovery of a painter and the invention of the public art museum  -- Ruben Rebmann; title: Botticelli and the Georgians  -- Mark Evans; title: The love affair with Florence  -- Stephen Calloway; title: Botticelli and Victorian art collecting  -- Susanna Avery-Quash; title: Botticelli and the pre-Raphaelites  -- Elizabeth Prettejohn; title: Beardsley and Botticelli  -- Susan Owens; title: Botticelli's path to modernity :; title: continental reception 1850-1930  -- Gabriel Montua; title: Herbert Horne's Botticelli  -- Caroline Elam; title: Warburg's Botticelli and Botticelli's nymph  -- Gerhard Wolf; title: Bernard Berenson and America's discovery of Sandro Botticelli  -- Oliver Tostmann; title: Botticelli, Yukio Yashiro and scholarship on Western art in Japan  -- Toshio Watanabe; title: Botticelli and fashion  -- Sonnet Stanfill; title: Filming Botticelli in post-war Italy  -- Riccardo Venturi; title: Branding Venus :; title: Botticelli as mirrored in American art since 1940  -- Stefan Weppelmann; title: The lessons of a new picture hang -- Antonio Natali.