Los ecos de las spalliere con la Historia de Nastagio degli Onesti de Sandro Botticelli
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The spalliere depicting the Story of Nastagio degli Onesti are a fascinating example of the influence exerted by Sandro Botticelli’s paintings in Italian Renaissance art. They served as inspiration for the two panels commissioned by the Del Nero family in 1485 that are currently in the Brooklyn Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Later on, due to fervour among English collectors in the late-nineteenth century, both sets of paintings were purchased by foreign buyers and some of the pieces where exhibited in London, not without controversy and mistaken accreditation. Botticelli as a painter was admired by English high society and imitated by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. However, the novella of The Decameron provoked negative reactions to the point that certain
parts of the paintings representing the theme were censored or effaced
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