Botticelli
Subtitle: likeness, myth, devotion : an exhibition organized by the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, November 13, 2009-February 28, 2010
By: edited by Andreas Schumacher ; with contributions by Cristina Acidini, Gabriel Dette, Bastian Eclercy, Hans Körner, Lorenza Melli, Ulrich Rehm, Volker Reinhardt, Anna Rühl, and Andreas Schumacher
Contributors: Schumacher, Andreas; Acidini Luchinat, Cristina, 1951-; Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ostfildern, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9783775724814; 9783775724807
Subjects: Exhibitions; Italian Art; Catalogs
Work titles: Paintings
Description: This publication provides the reader with impressive insight into Botticelli's important contributions to Florentine art, and also traces the ideals of feminine beauty, embodied not only by his enchanting goddesses and Madonnas, but also in the idealized portrait of an unknown lady.
Notes: "This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition Botticelli, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, November 13, 2009-February 28, 2010"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-369).
Table of contents: title: Essays: The painter Sandro Botticelli: an introduction to his oeuvre / Andreas Schumacher; title: Simonetta Vespucci: the construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction of a myth / Hans Körner; title: For a prosperous Florence: Botticelli's mythological allegories / Cristina Acidini; title: Botticelli as a draftsman: his studies of heads / Lorenza Melli; title: Tyranny or golden age? Florence in Botticelli's day / Volker Reinhardt; title: Character assassination with consequences: the life of Botticelli according to Giorgio Vasari and modern art historiography / Ulrich Rehm; title: Giorgio Vasari: the life of Sandro Botticelli, painter of Florence (1568); title: Botticelli: biographical facts.