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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:: 25076
Domenico Ghirlandaio,Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni (mk36)
1488
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Madrid,
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Painting ID:: 25077
Domenico Ghirlandaio,Stories of St John the Baptist,The Visitation (mk36)
c.1490
details of the fresco with Lucrezia Tornabuoni,mother of Lorenzo,and Giovanna degli Albizi,possibly represented twice as indicated by the jewel.Florence,Santa Maria Novella,Cappella Tornabuoni
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Painting ID:: 25078
Venus and the Graces offering gifts to a young woman (mk36)
c.1486
detached fresco from Villa Lemmi at Legnaia.Paris,Musee du Louvre
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Painting ID:: 25080
Bardi Altarpiece (mk36)
1485
detail of St john the Baptist and of Vase filled with lilies and olive branches,Berlin,Staatliche Museen,Gemaldegalerie
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Painting ID:: 25082
Bardi Altarpiece (mk36)
1485
Berlin,Staatliche Museen,Gemaldegalerie
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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: | George Hendrik Breitner | John J Enneking | CASTIGLIONE, Giovanni Benedetto | Jan Fyt | Albani, Francesco |
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