cctm collettivo culturale tuttomondo Sandro Botticelli, Madonna della Melagrana
Sandro Botticelli (Firenze, 1445 – Firenze, 1510) è stato un pittore del Quattrocento italiano.
E’ considerato uno dei maggiori esponenti del Primo Rinascimento, movimento culturale che concilia i modelli di bellezza dell’antichità classica con le nuove conoscenze e lo spirito umanista dell’età moderna. Tutta la sua attività si è svolta nel capoluogo toscano, all’ombra dei Medici e nel clima neoplatonico che caratterizzò la cultura fiorentina di quegli anni.
Sandro Botticelli (Florence, 1445 – Florence, 1510) was a painter of the Italian Quattrocento.
He belongs to the third generation of the Quattrocento, led by Lorenzo de Medici the Magnificent and Angelo Poliziano. They sought the freedom to conduct themselves humanly, taken from classical antiquity. Giorgio Vasari narrates, in his Vita of Botticelli, from his childhood to his death. This work belongs to Le vite de’ più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architettori. Less than a hundred years later, this period, under the patronage of Lorenzo de Medici, was considered by Giorgio Vasari as a “golden age.” This is due to the artistic splendor achieved in Florence at the end of the 15th century.
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opera: Sandro Botticelli, Madonna della Melagrana (1487) – ubicazione Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Botticelli painted the Madonna of the Pomegranate in 1487.
The picture’s title is explained by the pomegranate in Mary’s hand: this should be understood to symbolize Christ’s Passion, the wealth of seeds conveying the fullness of Christ’s suffering. Botticelli has now arranged the angels symmetrically, thereby avoiding the compositional difficulties of the older depiction.
A certain lifelessness of the figures in the picture can nonetheless be detected; while this may also be encountered in the mythological paintings from this period, here it holds the danger of superficiality. Mary is bowing her head in a manner that is mechanical, and the gestures and gazes of the angels make one conscious that the gentle vivaciousness encountered in the earlier depictions is missing here.
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