C*Q
发帖数: 65 | 1 Botticelli's two most famous paintings were painted around this time,
possibly for Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici. They are the
Primavera (c1478) and the Birth of Venus (c1483), both in the Uffizi.
These are mythologies, not of the capricious Ovidian sort, but, it has
been suggested, ones that embody the moral and metaphysical Neoplatonic
ideas that were then fashionable in the Medici circles. Pure visual
poetry, they are stylistically the quintessence of Botticelli: there is
a deliberate d | C*Q
发帖数: 65 | 2 Botticelli's two most famous paintings were painted around this time,
possibly for Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici. They are the
Primavera (c1478) and the Birth of Venus (c1483), both in the Uffizi.
These are mythologies, not of the capricious Ovidian sort, but, it has
been suggested, ones that embody the moral and metaphysical Neoplatonic
ideas that were then fashionable in the Medici circles. Pure visual
poetry, they are stylistically the quintessence of Botticelli: there is
a deliberate denial of rational spatial construction and no attempt to
model solid-looking figures; instead the figures float on the forward
plane of the picture against a decorative landscape backdrop, and form,
defined by outline, is willfully modified to imbue that outline with
expressive power. |
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