Sandro Botticelli Biography

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NAME: Sandro Botticelli
OCCUPATION: Painter
BIRTH DATE: 1445
DEATH DATE: May 17, 1510
PLACE OF BIRTH: Florence, Italy

PLACE OF DEATH: Florence, Italy
Originally: Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi
Nickname: Il Botticelli
Nickname: The Little Barrell

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Sandro Botticelli was an Italian painter during the Early Renaissance. His best known works are The Birth of Venus and Primavera.

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Sandro Botticelli was an Italian painter during the Early Renaissance. As a young boy, he apprenticed a goldsmith. By his forties, he had developed a distinctive style and was an established master. In 1481, he joined a team of Umbrian artists called to Rome to decorate the Sistine Chapel. His best known works, however, are his mythological paintings, especially The Birth of Venus and Primavera.

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(born 1445, Florence—died May 17, 1510, Florence [Italy]) Italian Renaissance painter. As a youth he may have been apprenticed to a goldsmith, and he later trained with Fra Filippo Lippi in Florence. By 1470 he had developed a distinctive style and was established as a master. In 1481 he was among a team of Florentine and Umbrian artists called to Rome to decorate the Sistine Chapel; three of his finest religious frescoes (completed 1482) can be seen there. Though prolific as a painter of religious images, his mythological paintings are his best-known works. His outstanding portraits show the influence of contemporary Flemish art in the placement of the figure in front of a landscape. Among his greatest works are the Primavera, Pallas and the Centaur, Venus and Mars, and The Birth of Venus, all painted 1477–90. About 75 of his paintings survive, many of them in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Interest in his work revived in the 19th century, and today he is one of the most esteemed painters of the Italian Renaissance.