Five centuries later Florence celebrates the genius of Sandro Botticelli dedicating an extraordinary and worth exhibition to its most famous artist in the world after Michelangelo. For the first time in this occasion Botticelli's masterpieces are placed side by side with those of Filippino Lippi in a direct comparison between teacher and pupil. Botticelli was the main pupil of friar Filippo Lippi, whose son Filippino has been vice versa in the workshop of Bottilcelli. They together created the new style of extraordinary poetry, linear,harmonious, delicated and characterized by "grace": and both realized passionate works reflecting the anxiety of Florence at the time of Savonarola. Worry and grace are in fact the most effective interpretation keys to understand the exposed masterpieces in their cronological sequence and in their symbolical meaning. Edited by Daniel Arasse, Pierluigi De Vecchi e Jonathan Katz Nelson.Italian and english edition, 24 x 28 cm, 344 pages, 116 colored e 68 b/w pictures.
