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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:: 25037
Francesco Furini,Lorenzo the Magnificent and the Platonic Academy in the Villa of Careggi (mk36)
c.1635
Florence,Palazzo pitti,
Sala di Giovanni da San Giovanni
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Painting ID:: 25038
Domenico Ghirlandaio,Stories of john the (mk36)
1486
Detail of portraits of Marsilio Ficino,Cristoforo Landino.Agnolo Poliziano and Gentile Becci.Forence,Santa Maria Novella,Cappella Tornabuoni.
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Painting ID:: 25039
Cristofano dell'Altissimo,Portrait of Marsililo Ficino (mk36)
after 1552
Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi
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Painting ID:: 25041
Primavera (mk36)
Details of Zephyrus as he pusues and catches the fleeing nymph Cloris,to make her his bride.
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Painting ID:: 25044
primavera (mk36)
Detail of Cupid with eyes bandaged,shooting an arrow at Chastity,one of the Three Graces,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: | Sir Edward john poynter,bt.,P.R.A | Dixon, Maria | Marcus Stone | Jean-Louis Hamon | Canaletto |
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