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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.
In 1464 Botticelli's father bought a house in Via Nuova nearby (modern Via della Porcellana), which Sandro took over in 1470 and lived in for the rest of his life. Here the notable family on the street was the Vespucci, including Amerigo Vespucci, born in 1454, after whom the Americas were named. The Vespucci were close Medici allies and would ...
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.
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 family continues to hold the title of the work ...
The family of Piero de' Medici portrayed by Sandro Botticelli in the Madonna del Magnificat (circa 1483–1485). The greatest accomplishments of the Medici were in the sponsorship of art and architecture, mainly early and High Renaissance art and architecture. The Medici were responsible for a high proportion of the major Florentine works of ...
Lucrezia was the daughter of Manno Donati and Caterina Bardi, a Florentine dame [9] who belonged to an extinct family tree, being the last descendant. From 1461 was the mistress of Lorenzo il Magnifico, [9] a platonic love, [10] until Lorenzo later married the Italian noble Clarice Orsini. [11]
The attribution to Botticelli's work was later confirmed by other experts, including Miklos Boskovits and Yukio Yashiro. [ 3 ] Nevertheless, most critics seem to agree that a part of the landscape in the background and the figure of St. John the Baptist would have been performed by an auxiliary in the studio of Botticelli, based on clear ...
The Youth of Moses or The Trials of Moses is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli and his workshop, executed in 1481–1482 in the Sistine Chapel, Rome (modern-day Italy). History