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In the studio of the exquisite Botticelli

2021-09-09T13:00:39.003Z


EXHIBITION - Despite the absence of major masterpieces, the magnificent exhibition at the Jacquemart-André Museum sheds light on his role as an entrepreneur and trainer in the Florence of the Medici.


Le Figaro hors-série devotes an issue to “the most personal painter of the Quattrocento” (André Chastel): discover the itinerary of the artist prodigy in nine days!

“Botticelli, all the beauty in the world”, 164 p., € 12.90, on newsstands and on

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Installed in the second of the eight rooms of the Botticelli exhibition, at the Parisian Jacquemart-André museum, a painted wooden panel represents Paris when this fatal Trojan prince presents Aphrodite with a golden apple.

The goddess was judged by him more attractive than Hera and Athena, other candidates for what could be described as the first Miss Universe pageant of all time.

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Here indeed, on the basis of the ancient myth, a revolution: one represents a mortal granting himself the power to say the beautiful.

This privilege was until then reserved for the gods.

Thus, since the Renaissance, for their happiness as for their misfortune, it is men who define taste.

Starting of course with the most powerful as well as the artists

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Source: lefigaro

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