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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:: 26972
Venus and Mars
c 1483
London National Gallery (mk57)
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Painting ID:: 26974
Venus and Mars
c 1483
detail of Mars and satyr with breastplate London National Gallery. (mk57)
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Painting ID:: 26975
Piero di Cosimo,Venus and Mars
1490-1500
Berlin,Staatliche Museen (mk57)
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Painting ID:: 26978
Domenico Ghirlandaio,The Calling of the first Apostles,Peter and Andrew
1481-1482
detail of group at right with Giovanni tornabuoni(?),uncle of Lorenzo the Magnificent and father of Lorenzo,the boy in the foreground wearing a short dark tunic,vatican city sistine Chapel. (mk57)
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Painting ID:: 26979
Lorenzo Tornabuoni
before the assembly of the Liberal Arts (c 1486) detached fresco from villa Lemmi at Legnaia,Paris,Musee du Louvre (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: | Maria Catharina Wiik | HONDECOETER, Gillis Claesz. d | Fedor Vasilyev | DUYSTER, Willem Cornelisz. | Gregorio Lopes |
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