Word: botticelli
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...collections in the world. Art-lover Hermann Göring, hastily moving south, was rumored to have boarded the sealed, armored train and rolled off with his treasures. Art experts had reason to believe that the Göring loot included Raphael's Madonna of Divine Love, Botticelli's Minerva and Centaur, Titian's Portrait of Lavinia, Van Eyck's altarpiece The Adoration of the Lamb...
...volume containing 85 excellent color reproductions, ranging from a 13th-Century Byzantine Madonna and Child to Paul Cézanne's 19th-Century Still Life. Paired off with each picture are such superior selections from world literature as Nathaniel Hawthorne on Fra Angelico, Walter Pater on Botticelli, William Blake on William Blake...
More specific and even better news followed. The BBC reporter had stumbled on a golden horde of paintings from Florence's famed Uffizi Gallery, including works by Cimabue, Giotto, Masaccio, Filipino Lippi, Botticelli, Andrea del Sarto. Said...
...hurried through into the main room, and alongside the straw mattresses laid out by Italian refugees ... I gave a shout ... as I realized I was looking at Botticelli's Primavera...
...Germans had apparently kept their hand in. Perhaps the most famous of all Florence's paintings-Botticelli's Birth of Venus-was reported missing. The Germans had carried it off. said a cable last week, "in payment for winter coal." Florence had apparently lost a supreme product of the period which, wrote Walter Pater, represented "the care for physical beauty, the worship of the body, the breaking down of those limits which the religious system of the middle age imposed on the heart and the imagination...