Diese Studie analysiert smtliche religisen Gemlde Botticellis und rckt deren intellektuelle Fundierung in den Mittelpunkt. Bildkonzeption und Stil Botticellis weisen enge Bezge zur neuplatonischen Philosophie auf. Beispielhaft wird aufgezeigt, dass die sthetische Eigenwirklichkeit des neuzeitlichen Bildes zuerst in der sakralen Kunst erscheint.

The Annunciation: a specific event recounted in the Bible and often represented in artworks, but also the prototype of many other announcements throughout the history of Western culture. This volume proposes new readings of pictorial Annunciations from the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period - treating aspects such as witnesses, inscriptions and architecture - as well as analyses of some visual echoes, reenactments of the announcement to Mary in sacred and profane contexts up to the twenty-first century. Among the latter are included Venetian decoration glorifying the state, a...