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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Ana Debenedetti -- Part 1. Botticelli in his own time. Introduction / Michelle O'Malley ; Sandro Botticelli and the birth of modern portraiture / Patrizia Zambrano ; Boticelli's Portrait of a lady known as Smerelda Bandinelli : a technical study / Nicola Costaras, Clare Richardson ; Classicism and invention : Botticelli's mythologies in our time and their time / Paul Holberton ; Jacopo del Sallaio's adaptation of the Primavera / Jerzy Miziołek -- Part 2. The Botticelli effect. Introduction / Julius Bryant ; Whigs and primitives : Dante and Botticelli in England from Jonathan Richardson to John Flaxman / Mark Evans ; Befriending Botticelli : psychology and connoisseurship at the fin de siècle / Francesco Ventrella ; A woman's touch, Michael Field, Boticelli and queer desire / Anna Gruetzner Robins -- Part 3. Botticelli between art history and connoisseurship. Introduction / Caroline Elam ; Crowe and Cavalcaselle on Botticelli : new results / Donata Levi ; Why Botticelli? : Aby Warburg's search for a new approach to Quattrocento Italian art / Claudia Wedepohl ; 'A Japanese critic on Boticelli' : frangmentation and universality in Yashiro's 1925 monograph / Jonathan K. Nelson ; Jacques Mesnil's Botticelli / Michel Hochmann -- Part 4. Botticelli now. Introduction / Stefan Weppelmann ; Ninfa fluida (a post-scriptum) / Georges Didi-Huberman ; Into the abyss : on Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus / Riccardo Venturi ; Giving an edge to the beautiful line : Botticelli referenced in the works of contemporary artists to address issues of gender and global politics / Gabriel Montua.

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