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The following is a list of panel paintings, works on canvas and frescoes by the Italian painter Sandro Botticelli. [1] His drawings, such as those of the Divine Comedy, are excluded. It is not indicated if some works might be executed with more or less participation by his workshop.
Detail from Botticelli's most famous work, [4] The Birth of Venus (c. 1484–1486) Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (c. 1445 [1] – May 17, 1510), better known as Sandro Botticelli (/ ˌ b ɒ t ɪ ˈ tʃ ɛ l i / BOT-ih-CHEL-ee; Italian: [ˈsandro bottiˈtʃɛlli]) or simply Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.
The painting is referenced in the title and cover artwork for Venus on the Half-Shell, a science fiction novel by Philip José Farmer. Andy Warhol reproduced the image in his series Details of Renaissance paintings (Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1482) Portfolio (F & S II.316–319). The portfolio comprises four screenprints in editions of ...
The origin of the painting is unclear. Botticelli was away in Rome for many months in 1481/82, painting in the Sistine Chapel, and suggested dates are in recent years mostly later than this, but still sometimes before. Thinking has been somewhat changed by the publication in 1975 of an inventory from 1499 of the collection of Lorenzo di ...
Though there are other paintings of Venus and Mars, Botticelli's work is often compared and contrasted with the Venus, Mars and Cupid by Piero di Cosimo (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, c. 1505), a younger Florentine painter who had probably seen the Botticelli. The painting probably dates to around 1500-05, and later belonged to Giorgio Vasari. The ...
The Mystical Nativity is a painting in oil on canvas executed c. 1500–1501 by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, in the National Gallery in London. [1] [2] It is his only signed work and has an unusual iconography for a painting of the Nativity.
The Adoration of the Magi (Italian: Adorazione dei Magi) is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli. Botticelli painted this piece for the altar in Gaspare di Zanobi del Lama's chapel in Santa Maria Novella around 1475. [1] [2] This painting depicts the Biblical story of the Three Magi following a star to find the newborn ...
Saint Sebastian is a painting of the eponymous Christian saint by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, executed before January 1474 when it was endowed to the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Florence. Today the panel is housed in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. [1] [2]