As said the curator, at that time the UK was “in love” with Botticelli and the Italian culture, so that British artists prerrafaelismo were the ones who rescued the now highly acclaimed legacy of the painter.
in the hall of the “rediscovery”, you can see various works of Rossetti as “the lady in the window” (1870), influenced portrait of Smeralda Bandinelli Botticelli, or “the rebirth of Venus” by Walter Crane, based on the eponymous fifteenth century.
copies of paintings of the Florentine artist are also included since 1815 in etchings and lithographs, and photographs of his paintings from 1860 as well as a sculpture by Ettore Ximenis, “La Rinascita “(1895), inspired by the famous” Spring “by Botticelli
the contemporary art, meanwhile, is home to all kinds of artistic expressions influenced by Italian. from two designs of Dolce & amp; Gabbana stamped with the face of Venus, to the famous versions Pop Art of the Roman goddess made by Andy Warhol.
“the selection of works was very severe, every job we have chosen has a meaning for the artist” said the director of the exhibition.
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