Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-308) and indexes.
Contents
Early work -- Initial success in Florence -- Botticelli as portraitist -- Primavera and her counterpart: Minerva and the Centaur -- Botticelli as frescoist in Rome: the Sistine Chapel -- Violence against woman: the tale of Nastagio degli Onesti -- The later mythology paintings -- Later altarpieces -- The late work: the end of time and the end of art? -- Catalogue of paintings -- The drawings.