The Portrayal of Love: Botticelli's Primavera and Humanist Culture at the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent
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Review "Dempsey eloquently praises the 'philological' precision with which Botticelli wedded the Classical and the vernacular, the modern and the antique. He himself shows a similar combination of eclecticism and critical insight as he weaves ideas and observations from Warburg and Wind, Cropper and Francastel into an original and striking explication of the painting. . . . An erudite and stimulating book."---Anthony Grafton, London Review of Books"The suggestion that the Primavera does not merely illustrate texts but is itself the material equivalent of a poem guides the study and deepens our understanding of ut pictura poesis in Quattrocento aesthetics.... This book forms the necessary point of departure for all future readings of this most elusive and challenging of Florentine pictures."---Cristelle L. Baskins, Sixteenth Century Journal"This book forms the necessary point of departure for all future readings of this most elusive and challenging of Florentine pictures."---Cristelle L. Baskins, Sixteenth Century Journal"Lucid, elegantly written, and scholarly: a valuable monograph and an exceptionally thoughtful case-study of the relation between literature and art."---Virginia Cox, The Times Literary Supplement Read more About the Author Charles Dempsey is Professor of Art History at the Johns Hopkins University. He is author of Annibale Carracci and the Beginnings of Baroque Style (I Tatti Monographs), and coauthor, with Elizabeth Cropper, of Nicholas Poussin: Friendship and the Love of Painting (Princeton). Read more
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The Portrayal of Love, is a well written and deeply researched book. Mr. Dempsey explains his thoughts and ideas on this important era of humanist culture clearly. A wonderful book—glad I found it!