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A sepia-toned artwork featuring multiple overlapping, sketched human profiles facing each other from the left and right. A dense, chaotic web of intricate, swirling lines and small circular patterns covers the figures and the space between them.
Botticelli and Simonetta
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Botticelli and Simonetta

Artist Jiri Anderle (Czech, born 1936)
Date1978
MediumDrypoint and mezzotint
Dimensionsimage: 17 1/4 x 25 3/4 in. (43.8 x 65.4 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Melvin and Lorna Rubin
Object number1995.27.8
Collections
Visual DescriptionA sepia-toned artwork featuring multiple overlapping, sketched human profiles facing each other from the left and right. A dense, chaotic web of intricate, swirling lines and small circular patterns covers the figures and the space between them.
A sepia-toned print featuring a horizontal sequence of overlapping human profiles facing right. The faces are sandwiched between two dark, textured, reddish-brown horizontal bands. Faint, wispy lines extend outward from this central composition.
Saskia
Jiri Anderle
1978
A reddish-brown print featuring dense, chaotic clusters of swirling textures and faint figures along the top and bottom edges. In the lighter central area, intricate mass of organic shapes resembles the young woman in Fragonard's "The Swing."
Les Hasards Heureux des Escarpolettes
Jiri Anderle
1978
A print with an irregular border showing a woman's right-facing profile repeated multiple times in an overlapping sequence extending to the right. The most detailed leftmost figure (after Leonardo da Vinci) wears a beaded headdress and a necklace.
Beatrice d'Este
Jiri Anderle
1981
A sepia print of an ornate classical frame flanked by two figures on pedestals with heavily shaded legs and lightly outlined torsos. Between them, a complex tangled mass of flowing lines hovers over a central pedestal holding a textured organic object.
In Combattimento di Trancredi e Clorinda I
Jiri Anderle
1972
A sepia print showing a large, pale, abstract face and shoulders. The interior is filled with a central, vertical axis of dense, chaotic, roughly symmetrical dark scribbles and swirling lines.
Open Eyes
Jiri Anderle
1965
A two-paneled print. The top section features faint blue intersecting lines and a grid overlaid with two sketched, fragmented faces, one from a self-portrait of Albrecht Durer. The narrow brown bottom panel depicts faces of a woman and baby flanked by horizontal, swirling abstract shapes and textures.
Space for Two (Perspective No. 6)
Jiri Anderle
1971
A monochromatic print featuring a woman's profile looking down. A dark, textured cluster of overlapping upward-looking faces overlays her torso. Her hands hold a jagged white shape. Thick white lines float above her. Two faintly colored round fruits sit below.
Girl Reading Letter III
Jiri Anderle
1979
A print with an irregularly shaped border featuring two faces. The left shows a softly shaded, forward-facing face with a necklace. The right displays a heavily lined, upward-looking male profile. Text near the bottom reads "OEDIPUS ANTIGONE".
Oedipus and Antigone
Jiri Anderle
1981
A print with an irregularly shaped border showing three figures: a left-facing profile with a beaded headpiece, a woman's face in the center looking right, and a horned figure on the right playing a pan flute.
Pan and Two Graces
Jiri Anderle
1981
A print featuring four small portraits of men in historical armor and clothing. Below them are two large faces: an older, open-mouthed man in profile and a forward-facing youth. Faint, overlapping geometric lines overlay the entire composition.
Galerie Historique de Versailles III
Jiri Anderle
1987
A two-paneled print. The top half shows faint active figures between two complex, fragmented profile heads made of mechanical and geometric sketches. The bottom red panel features three pale, anatomical human figures lunging amidst horizontal streaks.
Up and Down (Perspective No. 5)
Jiri Anderle
1971
A multi-panel print. The top row has two dark portraits flanking a geometric grid over a sketched fetal figure. The wide bottom panel displays five heads in a row, featuring basic sketches, fragmented pieces, and exposed anatomical structures.
Our Generation
Jiri Anderle
1972

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