Botticelli, Beyond the Renaissance

Botticelli, Beyond the Renaissance

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At the Legion of Honor, Sandro Botticelli’s “Study of the Head of a Woman in Profile (La Bella Simonetta),” (recto); “Study of the figure of Minerva (verso),” circa 1485, among his drawings on paper exploring the fall of light on a face. Viewers gravitate to his astonishingly tender paintings, but…

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