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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.
Botticelli ten years later was to die in obscure and unappreciated poverty; nevertheless, he was recognized even then as a great master. The scene on the right porch is the death of Lucretia. The frieze over the porch depicts Horatius Cocles , a warrior who defended Rome against the intervention of Lars Porsenna and the ousted last king of Rome ...
Botticelli painted three scenes, helped by numerous assistants. On 17 February 1482 his contract was renewed, including the other scenes to complete the chapel's decoration. However, on the 20th of the same month, his father died: he returned to Florence, where he remained.
Protesters targeted Botticelli's 'The Birth of Venus' painting in a demonstration at a museum in Florence.
Simonetta Cattaneo was born around 1453 in a part of the Republic of Genoa that is now in the Italian region of Liguria. [2] A more precise location for her birthplace is unknown: possibly the city of Genoa, [3] or perhaps either Portovenere or Fezzano (nowadays included in the municipality of Portovenere). [4]
A painting by the 15th-century master Sandro Botticelli, recorded as missing since the 1980s, has been found at a home in southern Italy.. The depiction of the Virgin Mary and infant Christ was ...
The Temptations of Christ depicts three episodes from the gospels, in parallel with the painting on the opposite wall, also by Botticelli, showing the Trials of Moses.A frieze, similar to that beneath the other frescos, has the inscription TEMPTATIO IESU CHRISTI LATORIS EVANGELICAE LEGIS ("The Temptations of Christ, Bringer of the Evangelic Law").
Scenes from the Life of Saint Zenobius is a series of paintings by the Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli. Four panels from the series survive, which are now in three different museums. [1] Each depicts three or more incidents from the life of Zenobius, an early Bishop of Florence who perhaps died in 417.