"Of many of Botticelli's women and youths one might say that they have just awoken as from a dream to consciousness of the outside world, and although they actively devote themselves to the outside world, dream images still echo through their conscious minds."
Background and Training
The Early Work
Inset: Power and Patronage of the Medicis
The Painter of Frescoes
Secular Paintings for Private Palaces
Great Altars for Florentine Churches
Inset: Savonarola and the Political and Religious Crisis at the Turn of the Century
The Late Work
Inset: Botticelli and Dante
The Last Scenic Works
Chronology
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Photographic Credits