Botticelli Quote by Marcel Proust

“Or she would look at him with a sullen expression, once again he would see before him a face worthy of figuring in Botticelli's…

— Marcel Proust

“They breathe the spirit of benevolence for which Toscanelli was noted, and indicate the greatness of the man—a greatness decidedly in contrast to the…

— Frederick A. (Frederick Albion) Ober

“HIS SERENE HIGHNESS Nicolo Alessandro Lorenzo Giovanni De’Medici”

— Katy Regnery

Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration.

— David Bailey

“MAIN CHARACTERS Cesare Borgia (c. 1475–1507). Italian warrior, illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI, subject of Machiavelli’s The Prince, Leonardo employer. Donato Bramante (1444–1514).…

— Walter Isaacson

“[Giordano] Bruno died, despised and suffering, after eight years of agony. From that moment, his works have attracted interest, and he has long been…

— Dorothea Singer

“He is called Excelsior. In Latin the name means "ever higher". This impossible man does not know this. To be fair, there are a…

— Patrick E. McLean

“(About Cesare Borgia) What cruelties were not the result of his? Who could count all his crimes? Such was the man that Machiavel prefers…

— Frederick the Great

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

— Publius Attius Varus

“Don Pedro Luis de Borja-Pierluigi Borgia to the Italians—was still in his mid-twenties when he became the first member of his family to be…

— G.J. Meyer

“According to the biographical notes, Monsieur Julian Carax was twenty-seven, born with the century in Barcelona, and currently living in Paris; he wrote in…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“[Original text in French] Giovanni n'avait pas menti. Sagra était une merveille baroque, une collision improbable et inquiétante de la nature et de l'art.…

— Julien Gracq