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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:: 26934
Novella di Nastagio degli Onesti
episode:Banquet held by Nastagio and return of the Vistion(1483)
Madrid,Prado Museum. (mk57)
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Painting ID:: 26936
Francesco Furini,Lorenzo the Magnificent and the Platonic Academy in the Villa of Careggi
C 1635
Florence,Palazzo Pitti,
Sala di Giovanni da San Giovanni (mk57)
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Painting ID:: 26938
Cristofano dell'Altissimo,Portrait of Marsilio Ficino
(after 1552)
Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi (mk57)
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Painting ID:: 26939
Primavera
c 1482
Whole and details.Florence Galleria degli Uffizi (mk57)
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Painting ID:: 26940
Primavera
c 1482 detail of Zephyrus(the winged breeze of springtime)as he pursues and catches the fleeing nymph chloris,to make her his bride. (mk57)
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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 Hayter | Leopold Kowalsky | Santi Di Tito | Abraham Hendrickz van Beyeren | Jessie Willcox Smith |
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