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Youth and Nymph Holding an Armillary Sphere

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Description: Youth and Nymph Holding an Armillary Sphere
TitleYouth and Nymph Holding an Armillary Sphere
Creator nameUnknown
Creator nationality/cultureItalian
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation datec. 1460–1470
Object typePrint
MaterialsEngraving
LocationBibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
SubjectsPrints, Renaissance--ItalyNymphs (Greek deities) in art
StatusFrom the Otto Prints; idealized figures identified as Lorenzo de'Medici and Lucrezia Donati
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3. Poetry as History: Lucrezia Donati, Luigi Pulci’s Da poi che ’l Lauro, and Some Poems by Lorenzo de’Medici
Charles Dempsey
Description: The Portrayal of Love: Botticelli’s Primavera and Humanist Culture at the Time...
The Portrayal of Love: Botticelli’s Primavera and Humanist Culture at the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent
~MACHIAVELLI, writing in the Istorie Fiorentine of the days of Piero de’Medici and the dissensions strewn in Florence by the rebellious Diotisalvi Neroni, Luca Pitti, Agnolo Acciaiuoli, and Niccolò Soderini, tells of...
Author
Charles Dempsey
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Copyright© 1992 by Princeton University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.79-113
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Chapter subject tags:Painting, Renaissance--ItalyBotticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 1445-1510. SpringLove poetry, ItalianNeoplatonismMedici, Lorenzo de', 1449-1492Venus deities in artHumanism

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LocationBritish Museum, London
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/29742001
Accession number1845,0825.690
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https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/29367001
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