. Art and criticism : monographs and studies. t and variousbeauty of their forms and faces, make this group one of themost characteristic in Botticellis work, and one of the mostlovely creations of art. The beauty, however, is not that ofRaphaels figures. The realism of Botticelli prevented himfrom idealizing his models so far as to positively change thelines and features that give what we call character to a face;often, indeed, he chose even ugly types, which he has madebeautiful simply by the strenuous vigor of his drawing and thenobleness of his intense vision. This quality of character,bot
. Art and criticism : monographs and studies. t and variousbeauty of their forms and faces, make this group one of themost characteristic in Botticellis work, and one of the mostlovely creations of art. The beauty, however, is not that ofRaphaels figures. The realism of Botticelli prevented himfrom idealizing his models so far as to positively change thelines and features that give what we call character to a face;often, indeed, he chose even ugly types, which he has madebeautiful simply by the strenuous vigor of his drawing and thenobleness of his intense vision. This quality of character,both in faces, in attitudes, and in gestures, gives to all Botti-cellis best work a perennial freshness, a human and thereforeeternally modern interest. In our engraving will be seen a reproduction of the headof one of these golden - haired Graces with her strange andsumptuous coiffure — the forehead bare and high, as was thefashion in old Florence, the hair crimped and frizzed so as tohide the ears entirely, the crown decked with torsades of. HEAD OF ONE OF THE THREE GRACES IN BOTTICELLIS ALLEGORY OF SPRING. In the Academy at Florence. SANDRO BOTTICELLI. 13 pearls, and two long plaits forming a necklace from which issuspended a pendant of precious stones. A similar but evenmore complex coiffure of plaits and tassels of hair interwovenwith strings of pearls may be seen in the Frankfort Museumin Botticellis wonderful portrait of Lucrezia Tornabuoni, wifeof Piero dei Medici, and mother of Lorenzo the , there is a whole chapter to be written on Botticelliconsidered as a ladies hair-dresser and costumer, and artists insplendor and elegance will find a mine of suggestion in hisworks. Next to the group of the Graces a blue-eyed Mercury withabundant brown hair, wearing a helmet of oxidized steel nicUcwith gold, a diapered mantle of raspberry red, a richly wroughtdagger and shoulder-belt, russet gaiters turned down with blue,to which are attached exquisite brown wings
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