BOTTICELLI, Sandro (b. 1445, Firenze, d. 1510, Firenze) The Temptation of Christ (detail) 1481-85 Fresco Cappella Sistina, Vatican Among the crowd of people making up the Jewish sacrificial scene, a woman in the left-hand foreground who is carrying on her head a bowl with hens in it strikes us familiar. This figure is a copy of Abra, the maid in the small panel of The Return of Judith to Bethulia, which Botticelli had painted a decade before. The posture of the woman carrying wood in the right-hand foreground (this picture) may also be derived from this picture. These similarities le
BOTTICELLI, Sandro (b. 1445, Firenze, d. 1510, Firenze) The Temptation of Christ (detail) 1481-85 Fresco Cappella Sistina, Vatican Among the crowd of people making up the Jewish sacrificial scene, a woman in the left-hand foreground who is carrying on her head a bowl with hens in it strikes us familiar. This figure is a copy of Abra, the maid in the small panel of The Return of Judith to Bethulia, which Botticelli had painted a decade before. The posture of the woman carrying wood in the right-hand foreground (this picture) may also be derived from this picture. These similarities lead to the assumption that Botticelli kept sketches of his compositions and figures so to have a stock of motifs upon which he could then draw his later pictorial creations. In contrast, Botticelli borrowed the small boy holding bunches of grape, and who has been frightened by a snake, from Hellenistic sculpture. --- Keywords: -------------- Author: BOTTICELLI, Sandro Title: The Temptation of Christ (detail) Time-line: 1451-1500 School: Italian Form: painting Type: religious
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