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St John on Patmos, 1492 #earlyrenaissance #botticelli https://www.wikiart.org/en/sandro-botticelli/st-john-on-patmos-1492

🪷 Now #Venus leaves emotionally cold #Aquarius and dives into romantic #Pisces. Love and riches flow to you for the next 4 weeks! Art: #Art_P3rry #Botticelli Birth of #Aphrodite as a boy. #Antinous #MoonMagic #astrology forecast: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/01/astro-forecast-jan-26th-5th-2023.html 🪷

2/ More on Piero di Cosimo, of C15th #Florence and contemporary of #Botticelli.

The dreamlike quality of 'Lapiths vs Centaurs' is influenced by C15th Netherlandish #Art. In terms of love of landscape and a fascination with non-human forms of life, in Italy, Piero was a trailblazer.

An early biographer portrayed him an eccentric, unkempt and aloof, preferring beasts to men. A man with a morbid fear of thunderstorms who ate nothing but boiled eggs cooked 50 at a time 🥚

#NationalGallery #Myth

Carlo Crivelli. The #NationalGallery has multo C, such was his standing in the C19th. Not so much now.

By late C15th artistically #Rome and Florence was where it was at, and #Venice was developing. In the Italian Marche C ploughed a lonely furrow, the wrong side of Italy's rocky backbone for serious competition.

Is he now the comic book artist of the #Renaissance? No. Religion wagged the dog and paid the bills, and that's what we've got. He was as good as #Botticelli, and B was a genius.

#Art

That's 4 artists in 4 days: #Verrocchio, #Perugino, #Raphael, #GiulioRomano. Each taught by the former, through 60 years from 1470 - 1530.

A wee tour of the Renaissance through High Rennaissance to Mannerism. As student became master and forged a new identity and art movement on the way.

Standing on the shoulders of artistic giants, as is the way 🙂

Note: #Botticelli, #LucaSignorelli, and a young Leonardo de Vinci all spent time in V's studio.

#Art #NationalGallery #Renaissance

That's 4 artists in 4 days: #Verrocchio, ##Perugino, #Raphael, Giulio Romano. Each taught by the former, through 60 years from 1470 - 1530.

A wee tour of the Renaissance through High Rennaissance to Mannerism. As student became master and forged a new identity and art movement on the way.

Standing on the shoulders of artistic giants, as is the way 🙂

Note: #Botticelli, Luca Signorelli, and a young Leonardo de Vinci all spent time in V's studio.

#Art #NationalGallery #Renaissance

Every master was once a beginner 🎨

'Tobias and the Angel', by Andrea del Verrocchio (NG0781) was also worked on by a number of his students, including the young #LeonardoDaVinci.

It's suggested that #Leonardo painted the fish and the now vanishing dog. L famously loved animals and was a committed #vegetarian, as from observation he understood animals felt pain.

Other famous students in AdV's workshop: #Ghirlandaio, #Perugino and #Botticelli. That's quite a mix.

#NationalGallery #OldMasters

Every master was once a beginner.

'Tobias and the Angel', by Andrea del Verrocchio (NG0781) was also worked on by a number of his students, including the young #LeonardoDaVinci.

It's suggested that #Leonardo painted the fish and the now vanishing dog (a Maltese?). L famously loved animals and was a #vegetarian, as from observation he understood animals felt pain.

Other famous students in AdV's workshop: #Ghirlandaio, #Perugino and #Botticelli. That's quite a mix.

#NationalGallery #OldMasters

Continuing the tour of Botticelli's B&B by #JanPieńkowski we move to the luxurious tiled bathroom. The floor has been laid to a design by #Vermeer & the ceiling a map of the heavens by #Blaeu . Sir David ( #Michelangelo) & Lady Venus ( #Botticelli ) are guests currently occupying the facilities. Whilst she showers behind a blue curtain he brushes his teeth in the mirror. Her disgarded slippers are from #Fragonard , towel by #Mondrian & Water Lily toilet freshener by #Monet

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#Milan - less popular than #LaBrera ,but an even more amazing place to visit IMO, is the #BibliotecaAmbrosiana. Check out their #Leonardo #Raphael #Caravaggio and #Botticelli among others. #HiddenItaly https://www.milanopocket.it/opere-pinacoteca-ambrosiana/amp/