Revising Art History: The Critical Fortunes of Botticelli
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2011-02-16
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I seek to argue that Alessandro Botticelli s unique critical fortunes that is, his success as an artist in late-fifteenth century Florence, his dismissal by Giorgio Vasari and subsequent obscurity, and his rehabilitation in the nineteenth century offer a historiographical case study of art history itself.
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Art History, Alessandro Botticelli, Italian Renaissance, Painting, Historiography, Pre Raphaelites, Raphael, Art Criticism