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Sandro Botticelli
Italian Early Renaissance Painter, 1445-1510
Italian painter and draughtsman. In his lifetime he was one of the most esteemed painters in Italy, enjoying the patronage of the leading families of Florence, in particular the Medici and their banking clients. He was summoned to take part in the decoration of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, was highly commended by diplomatic agents to Ludovico Sforza in Milan and Isabella d Este in Mantua and also received enthusiastic praise from the famous mathematician Luca Pacioli and the humanist poet Ugolino Verino. By the time of his death, however, Botticelli s reputation was already waning. He was overshadowed first by the advent of what Vasari called the maniera devota, a new style by Perugino, Francesco Francia and the young Raphael, whose new and humanly affective sentiment, infused atmospheric effects and sweet colourism took Italy by storm; he was then eclipsed with the establishment immediately afterwards of the High Renaissance style, which Vasari called the modern manner, in the paintings of Michelangelo and the mature works of Raphael in the Vatican. From that time his name virtually disappeared until the reassessment of his reputation that gathered momentum in the 1890s
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Painting ID:: 10023
St. Dominic.
Tempera and oil
on canvas,
transferred from pane
Hermitage,
St.Petersburg,Russia
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Painting ID:: 20033
A Young Woman Receives Gifts from Venus and the Three Graces (mk05)
Fresco 83 x 111 1/2''(211 x 283 cm)From the Villa Lemmi(Chiasso Macerelli,near Florence),which may have belonged to the Tornabuoni family acquired by the Louvre in 1882
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Painting ID:: 20034
Portrait of a Man (mk05)
Wood 22 1/2 x 15 1/4''(57 x 39 cm)Entered the Louvre in 1882
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Painting ID:: 20035
The Virgin and child with John the Baptist (mk05)
Wood 36 x 26 1/2''(91 x 67 cm)Entered the Louvre in 1824
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Painting ID:: 21199
Pallas and the Centaur (mk08)
c.1482
Tempera on canvas
207x148cm
Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi
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Sandro Botticelli
Italian Early Renaissance Painter, 1445-1510
Italian painter and draughtsman. In his lifetime he was one of the most esteemed painters in Italy, enjoying the patronage of the leading families of Florence, in particular the Medici and their banking clients. He was summoned to take part in the decoration of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, was highly commended by diplomatic agents to Ludovico Sforza in Milan and Isabella d Este in Mantua and also received enthusiastic praise from the famous mathematician Luca Pacioli and the humanist poet Ugolino Verino. By the time of his death, however, Botticelli s reputation was already waning. He was overshadowed first by the advent of what Vasari called the maniera devota, a new style by Perugino, Francesco Francia and the young Raphael, whose new and humanly affective sentiment, infused atmospheric effects and sweet colourism took Italy by storm; he was then eclipsed with the establishment immediately afterwards of the High Renaissance style, which Vasari called the modern manner, in the paintings of Michelangelo and the mature works of Raphael in the Vatican. From that time his name virtually disappeared until the reassessment of his reputation that gathered momentum in the 1890s
. Related Artists to Sandro Botticelli: | Woolner, Thomas | William Sharp | Makart, Hans | Jheronimus Bosch | Campin, Robert, Follower of |
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