Victoria and Albert Museum (London) presents “Botticelli Reimagined“, an innovative exhibition that will explore the enduring impact of the Florentine painter Sandro Botticelli from the Pre-Raphaelites to today. The exhibition is organised by the V&A and the Gemäldegalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
Telling a story 500 years in the making, “Botticelli Reimagined” will be the largest Botticelli exhibition in Britain since 1930. Including painting, fashion, film, drawing, photography, tapestry, sculpture and print, the exhibition will explore the ways that artists and designers have reinterpreted Botticelli.
It will include over 50 original works by Botticelli, alongside works by artists such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, René Magritte, Elsa Schiaparelli, Andy Warhol and Cindy Sherman.
Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) is recognised as one of the greatest artists of all time. His celebrated images are firmly embedded in public consciousness and his influence permeates art, design, fashion and film. However, although lauded in his lifetime, Botticelli was largely forgotten for more than 300 years until his work was progressively rediscovered in the 19th century.
Botticelli Reimagined
05.03.2016 – 03.07.2016
David LaChapelle, Rebirth of Venus, 2009. Courtesy of David LaChapelle
Sandro Botticelli, Venus (detail), 1490s. Courtesy of Gemäldegalerie Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Yin Xin, Venus, after Botticelli, 2008. Courtesy Duhamel Fine Art, Paris
Sandro Botticelli, Pallas and the Centaur, about 1482. Courtesy of Galleria degli Uffizi
Andy Warhol, Green Venus, 1984. Courtesy of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
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