. A history of / with a preface by Frank Brangwyn. XII BOTTICELLI1444 - 1510 THE MADONNA OF THE MAGNIFICAT known also as THE CORONATION OF THE VIRGIN (From the Tondo in the Uffizi) Probably painted about 1479. This painting is world-famous for thebeauty of the head of the Madonna. The Virgin is writing her song ofthe Magnificat; the Child holds a symbolic pomegranate. The tondo is 44 inches in i OF PAINTING aspirations amidst a widespread debauchery, racked with WHEREINcrimes and villainies and treacheries such as make of the ^E ARERenaissance years one vast shame. And t
. A history of / with a preface by Frank Brangwyn. XII BOTTICELLI1444 - 1510 THE MADONNA OF THE MAGNIFICAT known also as THE CORONATION OF THE VIRGIN (From the Tondo in the Uffizi) Probably painted about 1479. This painting is world-famous for thebeauty of the head of the Madonna. The Virgin is writing her song ofthe Magnificat; the Child holds a symbolic pomegranate. The tondo is 44 inches in i OF PAINTING aspirations amidst a widespread debauchery, racked with WHEREINcrimes and villainies and treacheries such as make of the ^E ARERenaissance years one vast shame. And this strange ^^^R^-paradox stands out in nothing more skilfully revealed than r^^^ r)r»T7Tin the art of painting that was the glory of this perplexing ^^ trfage, and in none more hauntingly than in the beautiful SPRING-and wistful art of Sandro Botticelli. TIME OF The son of a tanner of Florence, Sandro Botticelli, the THE RE-youngest of four brothers, was dubbed his nickname of NAISSANCEBotticelli, or Little Cask, after the little barrel that hungas a sign outside his elder brother Giovannis shop. Thefamily name was dei Filipepi, but Botticelli always signedhimself Sandro di Mariano. He seems to have beenthe son of a second marriage, since he was young enoughto be his elder brother Giovanni the tanners as a boy of fifteen to a goldsmith, his brotherAntonio, Botticelli had, soon thereafter,
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