[et_pb_section fb_built=“1″ _builder_version=“4.7.3″ _module_preset=“default“ background_color=“#000000″][et_pb_row module_id=“aaa“ _builder_version=“4.7.3″ _module_preset=“default“][et_pb_column type=“4_4″ _builder_version=“4.7.3″ _module_preset=“default“][et_pb_image src=“https:\/\/www.mse-kunsthalle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/05-Botticelli-scaled.jpg“ title_text=“05 Botticelli“ _builder_version=“4.7.3″ _module_preset=“default“ hover_enabled=“0″ sticky_enabled=“0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=“4.7.3″ _module_preset=“default“ text_text_color=“#f4f4f4″ header_2_font=“||||||||“ header_2_text_color=“#ce1b18″ custom_margin=“||101px||false|false“ text_font_size_tablet=“14px“ text_font_size_phone=““ text_font_size_last_edited=“on|tablet“ header_2_text_shadow_style=“none“]<\/p>\n
Wolfgang Beltracchi, 2018 [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=“4.7.3″ _module_preset=“default“ text_text_color=“#f4f4f4″ header_2_font=“||||||||“ header_2_text_color=“#ce1b18″ text_font_size_tablet=“14px“ text_font_size_phone=““ text_font_size_last_edited=“on|tablet“ header_2_text_shadow_style=“none“]<\/p>\n \u00bbSince ancient times, the southern hemisphere was considered inaccessible to European travelers. The conviction at the time was that at the equator the ocean was boiling impenetrably. The southernmost starry sky therefore eternally eluded human understanding. It was only in the literary imagination that it shone. In his \u201cDivine Comedy\u201d, Dante Alighieri, led by his companion Vergil, reaches the edges of the world. In the very south they both see a striking constellation, often identified as the \u201cSouthern Cross\u201d. Remarkably, Dante\u2019s vision, written around 1310, preempts the later first sighting of the \u201cSouthern Cross\u201d by a European. Dante\u2019s fellow countryman Amerigo Vespucci probably made this achievement on his trip to South America in 1499. Vespucci could have told his Florentine employer Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de\u2019 Medici about the concordance of Dante\u2019s report and the actual star constellation. Sandro Botticelli, whom Lorenzo frequently commissioned to pain, could then have united the two elements in a painting: the old, literary vision of the national poet and the modern confirmation by the seafarer, as a phenomenon of the turn of the century around 1500, which for the first time allowed European trade access to the complete \u201cexperienceability\u201d of the world.\u00ab<\/p>\n Dr. Thomas Eser, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=“4.7.3″ _module_preset=“default“ text_text_color=“#f4f4f4″ header_2_font=“||||||||“ header_2_text_color=“#ce1b18″ custom_margin=“100px||41px||false|false“ text_font_size_tablet=“14px“ text_font_size_phone=““ text_font_size_last_edited=“on|tablet“ header_2_text_shadow_style=“none“]<\/p>\n In the first song of Purgatory, Dante describes a constellation of four stars in the southern sky as a literary invention. Amerigo Vespucci reported the astronomical observations he made on the American coast in letters to his patron Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de\u2019 Medici. He also described a constellation reminiscent of Dante\u2019s fiction: today\u2019s \u201cSouthern Cross\u201d. For Botticelli, Lorenzo was an important client, for whom he illustrated the \u201cDivine Comedy\u201d on parchment. This tempera painting honours the great Florentine personages: Vespucci\u2019s Southern Cross is resplendent above Dante\u2019s Mount Purgatory.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wolfgang Beltracchi, 2018CruxHandschrift: Sandro Botticelli, ca. 1502, FlorenzEiempera und Harz\u00f6lfarbe auf Leinwand, 93 x 73,5 cm\u00bbVon alters her galt die s\u00fcdliche Erdhalbkugel europ\u00e4ischen Reisenden als unerreichbar. Am \u00c4quator w\u00fcrde das Meer undurchdringlich kochen, so die \u00dcberzeugung. Deshalb entz\u00f6ge sich auch der s\u00fcdlichste Sternenhimmel auf ewig menschlicher Kenntnis. Nur in der Phantasie der Literaten schien er […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3876","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mse-kunsthalle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mse-kunsthalle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mse-kunsthalle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mse-kunsthalle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mse-kunsthalle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3876"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mse-kunsthalle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4356,"href":"https:\/\/www.mse-kunsthalle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3876\/revisions\/4356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mse-kunsthalle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/strong>Artistic voice: Sandro Botticelli, ca. 1502, Florence
Egg tempera and resine-oil colour on canvas, 93 x 73,5 cm<\/p>\n