Botticelli owes its current fame to its many less Madonnas - do we know the exact number? - Only four tables on mythological subjects: "Spring", "The Birth of Venus," "Pallas and the Centaur" (Uffizi) and "Mars and Venus" (the National Gallery). It is only these four masterpieces devoted what the large volume (250 pages) published by Gallimard and taken-Mondadori Electa. It will focus less on the text of Cristina Acidini Luchinat on the collection of extraordinary photographs of Antonio Quattrone, to contemplate in these retail-size detail tables after 47 reproductions of pages for "Spring" (most complex four), 32 for "The Birth of Venus", 19 for "Pallas and the Centaur", 15 for "Mars and Venus". We enter the heart works better than we would in museums where they are exposed: perception of small details and the touch of the artist, who remains impossible remotely. "Sublime, necessarily sublime", would not have failed to exclaim the hilarious Marguerite.
