{"product_id":"botticellis-secret-joseph-luzzi-9798212192804","title":"Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance","description":"\u003cp\u003eA true historical detective story full of insight about how we look at art―and the artists and eras that produced it\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence's unofficial rulers, the Medici, he was commissioned by a member of their family to execute a near-impossible project: to illustrate all one hundred cantos of The Divine Comedy by the city's greatest poet, Dante Alighieri.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA powerful encounter between poet and artist, sacred and secular, earthly and evanescent, these drawings produced a wealth of stunning images but were never finished. Botticelli declined into poverty and obscurity, and his illustrations went missing for four hundred years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe nineteenth-century rediscovery of Botticelli's Dante drawings brought scholars to their knees: this work embodied everything the Renaissance had come to mean. Today, Botticelli's Primavera adorns household objects of every kind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is essential to explain not only how and why this artist became iconic but why we still need his work―and the spirit of the Renaissance―today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph Luzzi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8212192806\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798212192804\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Blackstone Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/22\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e CD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 5.59h x 5.75w x 0.55d","brand":"Joseph Luzzi","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":44079039545599,"sku":"9798212192804","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e840ebc8-d146-4d1c-b98e-25906ce395d6.jpg?v=1685478948","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/botticellis-secret-joseph-luzzi-9798212192804","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}