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Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus (c. 1484–1486).Tempera on canvas. 172.5 cm × 278.9 cm (67.9 in × 109.6 in). Uffizi, Florence Detail: the face of Venus. The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere [ˈnaʃʃita di ˈvɛːnere]) is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, probably executed in the mid 1480s.
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.
In this painting the boy is seated head on, so his whole face can be mapped out, making this a revolutionary work for its time. [1] This work has at various times been attributed to Giorgione, Filippino Lippi and even believed to be a self-portrait by Masaccio. [1] It is now widely accepted as a Botticelli and is his only known en face portrait.
During Merton's ownership the portrait was first described as a work by Botticelli. [1] The attribution to Botticelli was doubted later, as prominent monographs on Botticelli did not include the portrait as one of his. [9] Currently a majority of the art historians accept the attribution to Botticelli. [2]
The appearance at an auction in 1982, from the Thomas Merton collection, of a rarely seen painting by Botticelli of a Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel identified (with no real evidence) as Giovanni il Popolano in a similar pose, holding up a round medallion cut from a much older painting (albeit of a bearded saint, not Cosimo), has led ...
The Portrait of a Young Man is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli, dated between 1470 and 1475. It is housed in the Palazzo Pitti of Florence. Variously attributed to different painters, it was eventually included in Botticelli's works. It is one of the first known three-quarters portraits in western European art.
Italian Renaissance portraits by Sandro Botticelli (c.1445−1510). Pages in category "Portraits by Sandro Botticelli" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Upon first glance, the eye is pulled to the most illuminated point of the painting: the face of Fortitude. Her gaze is turned down and away from the observer and because of this, her expression is perceived as passive and uninterested. This was a characteristic feature of Botticelli's female figures. [6]