File:Sandro Botticelli 028.jpg
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Summary
Sandro Botticelli: A Young Man Being Introduced to the Seven Liberal Arts
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Young man (Lorenzo Tornabuoni ?) before the Seven liberal arts. |
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| Series title | cycle of frescoes by Sandro Botticelli at Villa Lemmi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Object type | fresco / mural | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | allegory | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This fresco, along with RF 321 was discovered at Villa Lemmi, near Florence in 1873. They could have been commisssionned for the marriage of Nanna di Niccolò Tornabuoni and Matteo di Andrea Albizzi. The young man on the painting, who may be the groom, is introduced to the Seven liberal arts by Venus (or Minerva)[1]. |
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| Date | 1480s / before 1487 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | fresco, tempera, plaster and fresco painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 238 cm (93.7 in) ; width: 284 cm (111.8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Unknown date: commissioned by Nanna di Niccolò Tornabuoni and Matteo di Andrea Albizzi, Villa Lemmi near Florence (?) 1882: purchased by the Louvre Museum, Paris |
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The work of art depicted in this image and the reproduction thereof are in the public domain worldwide. The reproduction is part of a collection of reproductions compiled by The Yorck Project. The compilation copyright is held by Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH and licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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References
- ↑ Les fresques de Botticelli pour la villa Lemmi, pdf number 19306 on the Louvre's Atlas database.
| Annotations | This image is annotated: View the annotations at Commons |
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