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Updated: June 13, 2025
Then he proposed to build Yale a new art-gallery and stock it with Pan-American pictures, all complete, in exchange for that little, insignificant and faded "Botticelli.". But no trade was consummated, and on the walls of Yale the picture still hangs. Each night a cot is carried in and placed beneath the picture.
I meant that he was like a great actor of passion character-acting meant nothing to me for many years and an actor of passion will display some one quality of soul, personified again and again, just as a great poetical painter, Titian, Botticelli, Rossetti may depend for his greatness upon a type of beauty which presently we call by his name.
Within fifty years of Finiguerra's invention very beautiful engravings were sold all over Italy, and many famous painters engraved their own works foremost among these, Mantegna and Botticelli. Early Italian art rose thus by regular steps, from the helpless, traditional, imitative work of the Romanesque and Byzantine artists to its highest development.
A second, much less symmetrical example of this type, is given by another Botticelli in the Academy, "Spring."
The green valleys, watered by twisting streams, with matted grasses, which Botticelli puts behind his enthroned Madonna and victorious Judith; Angelico's favourite hillsides with blossoming fruit trees and pointing cypresses; the mysterious firwoods more mysterious for their remoteness on the high Apennines which fascinate the fancy of Filippo Lippi; all this is here, and through it all winds the procession of the Three Kings.
Laine glanced at the picture to which Dorothea pointed. "That is a Jan Steen 'The Village Fair. Sorry you don't like it. You think that Botticelli is ugly also. A little later in life it may meet with your approval. The original is priceless." "A lot of priceless things aren't pretty. I don't ever expect to be a culturated person.
The gallery contains in literal fact some eight or ten paintings of the early Tuscan School notably two admirable specimens of Filippo Lippi and one of the frequent circular pictures of the great Botticelli a Madonna, chilled with tragic prescience, laying a pale cheek against that of a blighted Infant.
It seems to me, nevertheless, that a fine Filippo Lippi is good enough company for an Allori or a Cigoli, and that that too deeply sentient Virgin of Botticelli might happily balance the flower-like irresponsibility of Raphael's "Madonna of the Chair."
There is a degree of happiness known to the human heart which seems to belong to some enchanted world a bright maze into which, for a moment now and then, we escape and wander. To-day, he was more than ever like her Botticelli "Young Man," with his neck bare, and his face so clear-eyed and broad and brown. Had she really had a life with another man? And only a year ago? It seemed inconceivable!
Yet George Eliot writes that there were wiseacres who shook their heads and said: "This Madonna is the work of some good monk only a man who is deeply religious could put that look of exquisite tenderness and sympathy in a woman's face. Some one is trying to save Sandro's reputation, and win him back from his wayward ways." In the lives of Botticelli and Rembrandt there is a close similarity.
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