Sandro Botticelli

:This article is about Sandro Botticelli, the Italian painter. See also Botticelli (game).

References

• : Botticelli

For an excellent monograph on Botticelli and a catalogue of his works, see Ronald Lightbown Sandro Botticelli, 2 vols. (London: Paul Elek, 1974)

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For an easily accessible introduction to Botticelli see Ettlinger, L.D. and Helen S., Botticelli (London:Thames and Hudson, 1976) or Levey, M. and Mandel, G., The Complete Paintings of Botticelli (London, 1970)

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For the Botticelli/Botticini confusion see the National Gallery catalogue: Davies, M., The Earlier Italian Schools (London: National Gallery, 1961)

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The most important monograph on Botticelli remains Herbert Horne's Alessandro Filipepi, commonly called Sandro Botticelli, painter of Florence (London: G Bell and Sons, 1908), despite the fact that it is nearly one hundred years old!

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Walter Pater's essay on Botticelli of 1873 (in The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998) remains an excellent piece of art criticism and reveals much of the 19th century attitude to this artist.

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There remain many confusing opinions on the subject of the Primavera. See the following for a sample of the different ideas. Dempsey includes a lucid introduction to the various schools of thought.

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Warburg, A., "The Primavera and Birth of Venus by Botticelli" in The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity, 1999, pp.89-156..

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Gombrich, E., "Botticelli's Mythologies: A Study in the neo-Platonic Symbolism of his Circle", in Symbolic Images (1972), pp. 31-86.

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Dempsey, C., The Portrayal of Love. Botticelli's Primavera and Humanist Culture at the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent (Princeton,1992).

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Wind, E., Pagan Mysteries of the Renaissance (N.Y., 1968).

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