{"product_id":"book-ga5b","title":"Botticelli's Secret","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA true historical \"detective story\" full of insight about how we look at art―and the artists and eras that produced it\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eSome five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence's unofficial rulers, the Medici, he was commissioned by a member of their family to execute a near-impossible project: to illustrate all one hundred cantos of \u003cem\u003eThe Divine Comedy\u003c\/em\u003e by the city's greatest poet, Dante Alighieri.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eA powerful encounter between poet and artist, sacred and secular, earthly and evanescent, these drawings produced a wealth of stunning images but were never finished. Botticelli declined into poverty and obscurity, and his illustrations went missing for four hundred years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eThe nineteenth-century rediscovery of Botticelli's Dante drawings brought scholars to their knees: this work embodied everything the Renaissance had come to mean. Today, Botticelli's \u003cem\u003ePrimavera\u003c\/em\u003e adorns household objects of every kind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eThis book is essential to explain not only how and why this artist became iconic but why we still need his work―and the spirit of the Renaissance―today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49289457729840,"sku":"BDga5b","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49289457762608,"sku":"ZEga5b","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49289457795376,"sku":"ZMga5b","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/ga5b-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775973696","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ga5b","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}