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A visit to Caixa Forum - January 2009
Sandro Botticelli (1445 – 1510)
We will visit an exhibition of his works at CaixaForum, Barcelona on Saturday, January 24. The works are on loan from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
Here are the arrangements:
- Meet in the foyer, close to the ticket desk.
- Saturday, January 24 2009. We will meet as from 11.45 for a 12.00 start.
- The visit will finish around 13.30 and it will be in English! Don't worry about English levels for anyone you want to invite. We can all help with translation.
- Early lunch/snack in the Laie Cafe to mix and talk.
Please let me know by email before Thursday, January 22, 18.00 if you will be coming.
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli or Il Botticello ("The Little Barrel"; March 1, 1445 – May 17, 1510)
was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (Quattrocento). Less than a hundred years later, this movement, under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, was characterized by Giorgio Vasari as a "golden age", a thought, suitably enough, he expressed at the head of his Vita of Botticelli. His posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century; since then his work has been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting, and The Birth of Venus and Primavera rank now among the most familiar masterpieces of Florentine art.
This is an extract from the wikipedia entry for Botticelli.
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