Playing Botticelli

Playing Botticelli
Author: Liza Nelson
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2016-01-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1619844400

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Godiva Blue thinks she controls the world she has created for her daughter Dylan and herself in a neglected corner of North Florida. While her fellow college activists have become Reagan-era yuppies, Godiva—an elementary-school janitor who is also an avant-garde artist and avowed nonconformist—staunchly refuses to compromise her ideals. Then one day she glances at the wanted posters hanging in her local post office and recognizes the face of a man she hasn’t seen since 1969: Dylan’s father. Shaken, Godiva grabs the poster and takes it home. When 15-year-old Dylan, already secretly chafing against her mother’s out-sized personality, finds the photograph, the discovery rocks the very foundation of their relationship. Fueled by simmering adolescent resentment, Dylan sets out across America to look for the father she’s never known. Left behind and powerless to protect her daughter, Godiva must finally confront the choices she made long ago. By turns funny, scary and reflective, Playing Botticelli follows Godiva and Dylan deep into the uncharted territories of their hearts as they seek that elusive balance between autonomy and family love?

Botticelli in the Fire

Botticelli in the Fire
Author: Jordan Tannahill
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2019-11-21
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0571360173

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They're going to kill you. They're going to worship you, don't get me wrong. But they are going to kill you. Playboy Sandro Botticelli has it all: talent, fame, good looks. He also has the ear - and the wife - of Lorenzo de Medici, as well as the Florence's hottest young apprentice, Leonardo. But whilst he is at work on his breakthrough commission, The Birth of Venus, Botticelli's devotion to pleasure and beauty is put to the ultimate test. As plague sweeps through the city, the charismatic friar Girolamo Savonarola starts to stoke the fires of dissent against the liberal elite. Botticelli finds the life he knows breaking apart, forcing him to choose between love and survival. Jordan Tannahill's hot-blooded queering of Renaissance Italy questions how much of ourselves we are willing to sacrifice when society comes off the rails. Botticelli in the Fire made its European premiere at Hampstead Theatre, London, in October 2019.

The Smart Set

The Smart Set
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 648
Release: 1923
Genre: Libertarianism
ISBN:

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Family Games

Family Games
Author: Brian Burns
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2001
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781840134315

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Let's Play with Botticelli

Let's Play with Botticelli
Author: Samantha De Simone
Publisher:
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2009
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9788883474996

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Golden Tarot of Botticelli

Golden Tarot of Botticelli
Author: Atanas Atanassov
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2012-03-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9788865271711

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The Smart Set

The Smart Set
Author: George Jean Nathan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 648
Release: 1923
Genre: Literature, Modern
ISBN:

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Botticelli

Botticelli
Author: Isabella Alston
Publisher: TAJ Books International
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2014-11-19
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1844063925

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Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as simply Sandro Botticelli, was born in Florence, Italy, probably in or around 1445. Serendipitously winning a high-profile commission from the Florentine court, he was catapulted to notoriety as wealthy patrons, in particular the Medici family, hired him to create works that celebrated their lives and their familyÍs lives and marked important events such as weddings. BotticelliÍs range was wide: he embellished the walls of the Sistine Chapel with three frescoes, illustrated DanteÍs The Divine Comedy (just under100 drawings still exist), and painted both mythological and religious scenes„Primavera and The Birth of Venus, and Adoration of the Magi, being respective examples of his excellence in the genre. Botticelli never wed, possibly due to his unrequited love for the married Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci, who died very young. By the end of 15th century, Botticelli came to believe that Humanism„a philosophy embraced by the Medici family„was amoral. His reaction was to burn many of his paintings and thereafter to produce only religious-themed works.

Unbored

Unbored
Author: Joshua Glenn
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2013-07-18
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1408830256

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Unbored is the book every modern child needs. Brilliantly walking the line between cool and constructive, it's crammed with activities that are not only fun and doable but that also get kids standing on their own two feet. If you're a kid, you can: -- Build a tipi or an igloo -- Learn to knit -- Take stuff apart and fix it -- Find out how to be constructively critical -- Film a stop-action movie or edit your own music -- Do parkour like James Bond -- Make a little house for a mouse from lollipop sticks -- Be independent! Catch a bus solo or cook yourself lunch -- Make a fake exhaust for your bike so it sounds like you're revving up a motorcycle -- Design a board game -- Go camping (or glamping) -- Plan a road trip -- Get proactive and support the causes you care about -- Develop your taste and decorate your own room -- Make a rocket from a coke bottle -- Play farting games There are gross facts and fascinating stories, reports on what stuff is like (home schooling, working in an office...), Q&As with inspiring grown-ups, extracts from classic novels, lists of useful resources and best ever lists like the top clean rap songs, stop-motion movies or books about rebellion. Just as kids begin to disappear into their screens, here is a book that encourages them to use those tech skills to be creative, try new things and change the world. And it gets parents to join in. Unbored is fully illustrated, easy to use and appealing to young and old, girl and boy. Parents will be comforted by its anti-perfectionist spirit and humour. Kids will just think it's brilliant.