Botticelli et savonarole
L'humanisme à l'épreuve du feu
Michel Feuillet - Collection Histoire
Résumé
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Florence, February 7, 1497. The carnival is in full swing. At the Piazza della Signoria, Brother Girolamo Savonarola, the city's fervent reformer, is casting 'vanities' into a bonfire, having obtained them by persuasion or by force from the people of Florence. Gems and necklaces, playing cards, libertine books, but also art works deemed to be 'pagan' are devoured by the flames. How did Sandro Botticelli, painter of Primavera and The Birth of Venus react to such a sight? Was he impressed by the Dominican's diatribes against the corruption of art? Would he turn his back on the Renaissance, he who enshrined the magnificence of Lorenzo and so brilliantly represented humanism as promoted by the Medici family? This book reads like an investigation. Objectively, the author gathers testimonies searches for clues in Botticelli's paintings quotes Savonarola, the preacher of the Apocalypse, as well as poets and philosophers of a Florence that was so eager to be the new Athens. The result is a fascinating read: we discover two outstanding personalities who are much more complex than they first appear we are invited into a brilliant era of innovation that was soon to be shaken to its roots, torn asunder by its own contradictions. The lives of Savonarola and Botticelli provide a rich testimony of the Renaissance at its zenith- yet already in crisis.
L'auteur - Michel Feuillet
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PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Michel Feuillet |
Collection | Histoire |
Parution | 14/10/2010 |
Nb. de pages | 156 |
Format | 16.3 x 24.1 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 375g |
EAN13 | 9782204092593 |
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