The Florentine painter Sandro Botticelli was one of the greatest products of the Renaissance. His sinuous and telling outlines are so exceptionally decorative and expressive that they place his work amongst the finest creations in the history of art. His admiration of classical art is most powerfully evident in his recreation of “Calumny”, a lost masterpiece painted by a Greek artist Apelles in the third Century B.C. “The Calumny” is the centre point of the film around which the developing style of Botticelli is examined.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
003561
Language
English
Subject categories
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art - Italy
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art - Study and teaching
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art appreciation
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art, Italian
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art, Renaissance
Crafts & Visual Arts → Artists - Italy
Crafts & Visual Arts → Botticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 5-1510
Crafts & Visual Arts → Painters - Italy
Crafts & Visual Arts → Painting, Italian
Crafts & Visual Arts → Painting, renaissance
Crafts & Visual Arts → Renaissance
Crafts & Visual Arts → Renaissance - Italy
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Art - Study and teaching
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)