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Beauty: Botticelli in Florence

By (author) Julian Spalding

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â€˜Beauty is the beacon of God,â€™ said Botticelli. â€˜No, itâ€™s not. Love is,â€™ snapped his sister. Beauty: Botticelli in Florence imagines what Botticelli was feeling and thinking as he painted. The people he loved and despised, his private struggle between spirituality and sensuality, the tempestuous times he lived through â€“ all come to life in his imagesâ€¦ The novel is a speculation based on the few facts known about Botticelli, informed by his paintings. There are many surprises. The Birth of Venus was a tapestry design. And his famed self-portrait didnâ€™t depict him (as widely believed) but Pierfrancesco de Medici, who sued his powerful cousin Lorenzo for robbing him, abolished Florenceâ€™s homophobic witch-hunts, funded Vespucciâ€™s journey to the New World and commissioned Botticelliâ€™s most famous works. There was boiling tension between him and Botticelli. This is the first in a sequence of illustrated â€˜painting novelsâ€™ that make sights as tellingÂ asÂ words.

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