Comment: If art and literature have always been associated Passion Lippi is a novel that beautifully sublime this report. Italy plunged into the early 15th century, the reader share in the footsteps of Filippino Lippi. This unusual painter, characterized by his boundless love for women and its independence from the bottle should feel vice to produce genius. Drawing inspiration from his clandestine love affairs, our artist sinks into an uncontrollable self-destruction, which there is impotent. And yet, we love this character: how not to get attached to this thug whose fiery brush turns into Madonnas and whores and nuns in Mary?
whole life Lippi as told by Sophie Chauveau moved me with a big E. The way the author recreated the Florentine atmosphere prevailing at the time is simply fascinating. The excitement boiling in artisan workshops, through the settlement of accounts of " up" with this crazy epic the Medici family, novel offers a fascinating journey into the world of the great masters of Italian Renaissance . I liked this book for its beautiful cast of characters, its grandiose scenery, its romantic twists. Sophie Chauveau resurrect a period elegance with artistic milestone in the history of art. This novel is also the first of a trilogy on the painting of the Renaissance . Followed by Botticelli's Dream and The Obsession Vinci, this biopic of the pretext is an ode to art and a tribute women. After reading the last page of Passion Lippi was one desire: to read the following volumes ...
Dedication:
"To my daughters,
Sarah, Juliet
images of Madonna
promise of rebirth."
Quote: "The beauty for all morality ..." Christiane Desroches Noblecourt
4th cover: Florence 1414. A child shaggy, feet covered with horn, griffins furiously a remarkable fresco on the floor of an alley in the slums of the city. Miraculously spotted by Cosimo de Medici and placed in the convent of the Carmelites, it will be a breath of passion on Renaissance painting. monk and libertine artist intransigent and ruthless manipulator, future master Botticelli, his sublime Madonnas disrupt his day. They are however intimately it inspired by the girls of pleasure houses of Florence who hid their little prince. Braving all prohibited and until the supreme authority of the Pope, he commits the ultimate challenge of love. The scandal led him to exile and return to the bloody secret buried in the heart of her childhood. Painter thug, angel drunk, Fra Filippo Lippi invented a new relationship between art and the world of money and The first puts the status of craftsmen painters estimated that of artists. "
Excerpts: " One is not born noble. It becomes, "said Pétarque expressing is the dream of Cosimo: send everyone love and enjoyment of the Beautiful. Giving all the way to approach it. "p. 240
" painter, thief, forger, debauched, a monk who has suffered the strappado, who twice was thrown into prison! Necessarily guilty! Ignoble and treacherous. The association of his name with the prison remained, his reputation has remained a mark of disgrace! This protected the Medici, the blasphemer has become even more criminal: raping nuns! There is excessive. "P. 333
" Love does not confer any exclusive right! "P.389
"Life is fatal. Always. Even if it takes its time, it still kills." p. 416
" painter, thief, forger, debauched, a monk who has suffered the strappado, who twice was thrown into prison! Necessarily guilty! Ignoble and treacherous. The association of his name with the prison remained, his reputation has remained a mark of disgrace! This protected the Medici, the blasphemer has become even more criminal: raping nuns! There is excessive. "P. 333
" Love does not confer any exclusive right! "P.389
"Life is fatal. Always. Even if it takes its time, it still kills." p. 416
Author: Sophie Chaveau
Editions: Folio
date: April 2008
Number of pages: 482 p.
Cover: Filippino Lippi, Funeral of St. Stephen (detail). Duomo, Prato (Italy). Photo. Bridgeman Giraudon
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