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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Has English text along side other languages. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> This exhibition is the third to be held in commemoration of the opening of Marubeni Gallery and features Botticelli’s La Bella Simonetta. This work the only tempera painting by the artist currently located in Japan has been carefully housed by Marubeni in its collection for 53 years since it was imported from the UK in 1969. Since then the painting has been put on display to the Japanese public on only eight occasions the most recent being almost seven years ago when it was featured in the Botticelli e il suo tempo exhibition held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in 2016. The painting found its way to Japan after traveling through Italy France Britain Germany and then back to Britain. As Botticelli was largely forgotten by history for more than 300 years until his rediscovery in the mid-19th century there are very few of his works that can be traced back to the early 19th century with documentation making La Bella Simonetta extremely rare in this respect. With the aid of this invaluable documentation and through multi-angled investigations this exhibition traces the provenance of La Bella Simonetta in chronological order while also revealing. (SP)