Masterpieces 代表作(三)# Arts - 艺术殿堂
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Like his master Lippi, before him, Botticelli has created his own
instantly recognizable type of feminine beauty, used for Madonnas and
Venuses alike. His most remarkable painting is also the only one that
is signed, the Mystic Nativity (1500, London, National Gallery). It is
deliberately archaic with hieratic differences in scale (the Virgin and
Child dwarfing the other figures) and carries a cryptic inscription
(partly erased) forecasting the end of the present troubled world and
the beginning
instantly recognizable type of feminine beauty, used for Madonnas and
Venuses alike. His most remarkable painting is also the only one that
is signed, the Mystic Nativity (1500, London, National Gallery). It is
deliberately archaic with hieratic differences in scale (the Virgin and
Child dwarfing the other figures) and carries a cryptic inscription
(partly erased) forecasting the end of the present troubled world and
the beginning