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Sandro Botticelli
1445-1510 Italy/Early Renaissance
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Brief Biography-Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi) was born the son of a tanner in Ognissanti, Florence. Ognissanti was an industrious district made up of tanners and weavers. Botticelli spent his entire life in Florence except when he left for Rome to help paint the Sistine Chapel.
When he was sixteen, he entered the workshop of Filippo Lippi, a master of religious paintings. Lippi had an illegitimate son named Filippino by a nun who later became a student of Botticelli. Filippino was considered a great artist in his time.
By 1470 Botticelli had his studio and received commissions through connections with the de Medici family. Then, in 1478, he received a task to paint effigies of the dead bodies of two conspirators who assassinated Giuliano de Medici; this brought him to the attention of the Pope, who transported him to Rome, where he painted frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. He was now a renowned artist receiving numerous commissions and was considered the best painter in Florence.
In 1494 things worsened for Botticelli due to political events and the invasion of Charles VIII of France. His fortunes floundered more in 1502 after being suspected of sodomy. Leonardo and Michelangelo overshadowed his later years, and he was primarily a forgotten artist after his death in 1510. | |
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Three Scenes from
the
Story of Esther

Cestello
Annunciation

Venus
and Mars

Man with
a Medal

The
Birth of Venus

A Young
Woman

the
Primavera

A
Young Man

Adoration
of the Magi

The
Lamentation

The Bardi
Alterpiece

The
Calumny

Madonna of the
Magnificat

The Mystic
Nativity

San
Barnaba

a young man
with red hat

Inferno,
Canto XVIII

Calling
of Moses

The Story
of Virginia

Portrait
of Dante

Young
Woman

Virgin and Child
with Six
Angels

Adoration
of the Magi

Madonna of the
Pomegranate

Saint Augustine
in His Cell

Agony
in the Garden

Madonna of the
Magnificat detail

The Discovery of the
Murder of Holofernes

Story
of Lucretia

The
Annunciation

Punishment
of Korah

The Return of Judith
to Bethulia

The Story of Nastagio
degli
Onesti One

The Story of Nastagio
degli Onesti Two

The Story of Nastagio
degli Onesti Three

The Story of Nastagio
degli Onesti Four

Three
Temptations

Christ Crowned
with Thorns

Federico Montefeltro
and Cristofo Landino

Giuliano
de' Medici

The
Nativity

Lorenzo dS
P Lorenzi

Portrait
of a Man

Young
Man Two

A Young
Woman two

Portrait
of a Youth

Giuliano
de' Medici

Young
Man

The Virgin
and Child

Coronation of the
Virgin

The
Triumph

Pallas and the
Centaur

The Last Communion
of St Jerome

Saint Jerome and
Saint Augustine

fortitude

saint
augustine

Virgin and Child with
Young St John
