BOTTICELLI, Sandro
Italian Early Renaissance Painter, 1445-1510 Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli or Il Botticello ("The Little Barrel"; March 1, 1445 ?C May 17, 1510) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (Quattrocento). Less than a hundred years later, this movement, under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, was characterized by Giorgio Vasari as a "golden age", a thought, suitably enough, he expressed at the head of his Vita of Botticelli. His posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century; since then his work has been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting, and The Birth of Venus and Primavera rank now among the most familiar masterpieces of Florentine art. Details of Botticelli's life are sparse, but we know that he became an apprentice when he was about fourteen years old, which would indicate that he received a fuller education than did other Renaissance artists. Vasari reported that he was initially trained as a goldsmith by his brother Antonio. Probably by 1462 he was apprenticed to Fra Filippo Lippi; many of his early works have been attributed to the elder master, and attributions continue to be uncertain. Influenced also by the monumentality of Masaccio's painting, it was from Lippi that Botticelli learned a more intimate and detailed manner. As recently discovered, during this time, Botticelli could have traveled to Hungary, participating in the creation of a fresco in Esztergom, ordered in the workshop of Fra Filippo Lippi by Vitez J??nos, then archbishop of Hungary. By 1470 Botticelli had his own workshop. Even at this early date his work was characterized by a conception of the figure as if seen in low relief, drawn with clear contours, and minimizing strong contrasts of light and shadow which would indicate fully modeled forms.
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BOTTICELLI, Sandro Portrait of an Unknown Personage with the Medal of Cosimo il Vecchio fdgd oil painting


Portrait of an Unknown Personage with the Medal of Cosimo il Vecchio fdgd
1474 Tempera on wood, 44 x 32 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Painting ID::  5313 		BOTTICELLI, Sandro
Portrait of an Unknown Personage with the Medal of Cosimo il Vecchio fdgd
1474 Tempera on wood, 44 x 32 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
   
   
     
BOTTICELLI, Sandro Giuliano de Medici oil painting


Giuliano de Medici
Panel, 76 x 53 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Painting ID::  5314 		BOTTICELLI, Sandro
Giuliano de Medici
Panel, 76 x 53 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
   
   
     
BOTTICELLI, Sandro Portrait of a Young Woman (La bella Simonetta) fs oil painting


Portrait of a Young Woman (La bella Simonetta) fs
1475 Panel, 61 x 41 cm Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence
Painting ID::  5315 		BOTTICELLI, Sandro
Portrait of a Young Woman (La bella Simonetta) fs
1475 Panel, 61 x 41 cm Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence
   
   
     
BOTTICELLI, Sandro Portrait of a Young Man fddg oil painting


Portrait of a Young Man fddg
1469 Tempera on wood, 51 x 33,7 cm Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence
Painting ID::  5316 		BOTTICELLI, Sandro
Portrait of a Young Man fddg
1469 Tempera on wood, 51 x 33,7 cm Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence
   
   
     
BOTTICELLI, Sandro Portrait of a Young Woman 223ff oil painting


Portrait of a Young Woman 223ff
after 1480 Oil on panel, 47,5 x 35 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Painting ID::  5317 		BOTTICELLI, Sandro
Portrait of a Young Woman 223ff
after 1480 Oil on panel, 47,5 x 35 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin
   
   
     
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     Italian Early Renaissance Painter, 1445-1510 Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli or Il Botticello ("The Little Barrel"; March 1, 1445 ?C May 17, 1510) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (Quattrocento). Less than a hundred years later, this movement, under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, was characterized by Giorgio Vasari as a "golden age", a thought, suitably enough, he expressed at the head of his Vita of Botticelli. His posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century; since then his work has been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting, and The Birth of Venus and Primavera rank now among the most familiar masterpieces of Florentine art. Details of Botticelli's life are sparse, but we know that he became an apprentice when he was about fourteen years old, which would indicate that he received a fuller education than did other Renaissance artists. Vasari reported that he was initially trained as a goldsmith by his brother Antonio. Probably by 1462 he was apprenticed to Fra Filippo Lippi; many of his early works have been attributed to the elder master, and attributions continue to be uncertain. Influenced also by the monumentality of Masaccio's painting, it was from Lippi that Botticelli learned a more intimate and detailed manner. As recently discovered, during this time, Botticelli could have traveled to Hungary, participating in the creation of a fresco in Esztergom, ordered in the workshop of Fra Filippo Lippi by Vitez J??nos, then archbishop of Hungary. By 1470 Botticelli had his own workshop. Even at this early date his work was characterized by a conception of the figure as if seen in low relief, drawn with clear contours, and minimizing strong contrasts of light and shadow which would indicate fully modeled forms.

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