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Illuminations and cathedral bas-reliefs accompany the first two essays, "The Spirit of the Middle Ages" and "Medieval Life"; the third is illustrated by early Renaissance masterpieces of Giotto and Botticelli. Later comes "The Age of Exploration" with its hopeful, half-empty maps, Vasco da Gama in cap & gown, and a grinning mask which Montezuma presented to Cortes. The section on "The Protestant Reformation" includes a caricature doodled by a seminarian of his instructor, one John Calvin. The world's first modern observatory helps illustrate "The Dawn of Modern Science." Watteau's dimpled courtesans bring...
...remarkably gifted photographer of women. His talent for the picturesque lie, his mastery of the cosmetic power of light, his ability to observe beautiful women with a severe detachment-almost as fine pieces of furniture-produced photographs that were sometimes as exquisitely unreal as the visions of Botticelli...
...Young Botticelli. Brockhurst has had a taste for Florentine elegance since his schooldays. "The young Botticelli," his fellow art students called him. After "winning," as he says himself, "all the medals and scholarships the Royal Academy Schools in London award," he got his own studio; within a few years he established himself as Europe's most fashionable and highest-paid portraitist. In 1939, he left England to do a few commissions in the U.S., stayed on during World War II, finally became a U.S. citizen...
...Renaissance which produced Raphael, there were painters whose art, compounded of form and fire equally, remained a major triumph of the Christian world. The city of Florence was no bigger than Peoria, Ill., but in a single century-the isth-she blossomed with the paintings of Masaccio, Ucello, Botticelli, Luca della Robbia, Fra Angelico, Fra Filippo Lippi, and a score of others...
...Botticelli: The Nativity...