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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 of the early Renaissance-era. He contributed to the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel and painted the immortal The Birth of Venus.

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Sandro Botticelli was born in the mid-1440s in Florence, Italy. As a boy, he apprenticed as a goldsmith and then with master painter Filippo Lippi. By his forties, Botticelli was himself a master and contributed to the decoration the Sistine Chapel. His best known work is The Birth of Venus. He died in 1510.

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