Art-tourism. "Spring" by Botticelli. Line. In the Gallery Uffizi, the main museum of Florence, a 10-m room is one of the most famous paintings by Sandro Botticelli, "Spring".
Sandro Botticelli. Spring. 1477-1478. Uffizi. Florence.
Lorenzo de 'Medici, surnamed the Magnificent, his brother Giuliano, Simonetta Vespucci, mistress and muse Giuliano Botticelli, early death of Simonetta and tragic death of Giuliano, Onisanti church (All Saints), which were buried beautiful Simonetta and artist Botticelli - here's the real space, real stories, which are tied with this picture.
Andrea Verrocchio. Lorenzo de 'Medici. 1480 . National Gallery of Art. Washington.
Sandro Botticelli. Portrait of Giuliano de 'Medici (1453-1478)).
Sandro Botticelli. Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci (?) . 1480-1485 years. Frankfurt am Main.
But there is one, is not clear, the secret history.
This story Lines , creating images .
facts of history and culture will certainly help along the way. But the art - is the image. And the images - the feelings and emotions and only then and only then, thought. And the line, as well as color and texture, and rhythms embody just feelings and emotions.
art - not science, which is constructed on logic, on thought. Art - it is always embodied feeling.
Sandro Botticelli. Spring. Fragment. 1477-1478. Uffizi. Florence.
One of the literary source of the "Spring" is a poem Angelo Poliziano, "Stanzas to the tournament, celebrating Giuliano Medici and his lady heart Simonetta Vespucci.
In joyful grass she was sitting,
Scourge crown of all earthly colors,
Who found around managed,
With which was gay with her veil.
But to Julia she threw
eyes, not just the horror of requisitions,
And he arose, and flowers pinned to the bosom of
The fact that their hand to their pressed ...
(A. Poliziano. Stanzas for the tournament. Excerpt. Translated Eugene Solonovich.)
It is believed that Simonetta Vespucci depicted Botticelli in the form of spring on the same canvas.
carefully examine the picture.
In the center, Venus. To the right of it three Graces, the personification of the arts, and Mercury. Left - Spring and Nymph pursued by the god Orpheus Winds.
Even a cursory glance, thrown at the painting, is the apparent anxiety.
dark trees, dense rhythm of their straight trunks, soft glow of orange fruit, contrast a dark background and light silhouettes, deathly cold color Orpheus, perhaps it all together and create a feeling of aching.
But this line - the director unfolded before our eyes the drama.
Florence drew a good many, and went to study here is the picture. Each artist, persistently listening to yourself, express, individual, no matter what does not seem to feel their emotion. Thus was born a stylish line of Florence, and soon becomes linear center of culture.
Botticelli was an excellent draftsman, one of the best in Florence.
"painted by Sandro exceptionally well and so much that long after his death, each artist was trying to get his drawings, there are several in our book, executed with great skill and taste, "- wrote Vasari.
(quoting from: Giorgio Vasari. Lives of the most famous painters, sculptors and architects, including 2.Moskva. "Terra-Terra", 1993.).
Adoration of the Magi. Fragment with a self-portrait by Sandro Botticelli. 1476 - 1477 years. Uffizi. Florence.
In "Spring" by Botticelli demonstrates the ability to create a variety of patterns of lines. If Venus - a line of quiet, restrained, then the linear pattern of the three Graces is clearly different.
compare the figure of the three Graces Botticelli and suites Queen of Sheba Piero Francesca affairs.
Piero della Francesca. Arrival of the Queen of Sheba. Fresco Church of San Francesco in Arezzo. Detail. 1452 - 1466 years.
Lines Francesca solid and weighty. They generate a sense of the majestic rest.
lines of the three Graces are completely different. They are lightweight, with twists, intertwined nervous shudder, shudder. They surprised a combination of some lethargy and nervousness, and it enhances the feeling of suspense.
Spring, which is routinely associated with joy, renewal, energy freshness and youth, suddenly appears completely different emotional space.
decaying hair line, slowly flowing lines of the oval.
And suddenly you realize - Wilt!
In this beautiful youth, in a light dress and a delicate blossoming flowers, in a shy smile, in the eyes of the incident - the transience. Mig! expiring forever!
"Spring" by Botticelli - It's grief.
By the time the painting is no longer alive a young Simonetta Vespucci. She died April 22 1476 22 years of age.
Her funeral at the family crypt in the church Onisanti Vespucci.
«On the bare face of carrying it from home to the tomb, and many tears, she made shed some of those who saw it ... She instilled compassion, but also admiration for the deaths exceeded the beauty of life in which she was considered unbeatable. In her appearance was the truth words of Petrarch: "Beautiful Death on the face of this and the beautiful" » (Quoted from Ivan Klulasa" Lorenzo the Magnificent http://krotov.info/lib_sec/11_k/lu/las_03.htm ).
Two years later, April 26, 1478, by a strange coincidence on the day of death of Simonetta, during the Easter service in the Cathedral of Santa Maria Affairs Fier as a result of the Pazzi conspiracy was killed Giuliano. Plans conspirators frustrated all the time. Giuliano was sick, he would not go anywhere, but the service still went out and met his death. His brother, Lorenzo de 'Medici escaped and severely suppressed the Pazzi conspiracy. Giuliano body was exposed in the church of San Lorenzo. Then followed the magnificent funeral.
Sandro Botticelli lived to a ripe old age, died in 1510 in vozvraste 65 years and, according to his personal will, was buried in the same church as Simonetta, church Onisanti (All Saints), near the famous Santa Maria Novella on the muddy bank of the Arno River.
Being in Florence, we tried several times to get into this church. And even when it should have been available, we were facing the door closed.
Yet our insistence helped us.
Interior y erkvi Onisanti in Florence.
Ghirlandaio. Madonna della Misericórdia (family portrait Vespucci). 1472 Chapel in the church Onisanti Vespucci in Florence.
There, in the Church we remember the classic Venus, where everything speaks of the life force about harmony eternity, and next to which particular phenomena becomes tragic impermanence of Spring.
Venus de Milo. Fragment. 130 - 100 years. BC Louvre. Paris.
Standing in front of a modest signs of family vaults, we once again experienced the disappointment that the bitterness of loss, something strange Dying, an emerging in adolescence, are inextricably woven with youth and beauty, which brings us to the line of Botticelli.
next day we were in Ravenna. and spring flowers next to the church of San Appolinaria Institute Class once again reminded us of the masterpiece by Sandro Botticelli.
