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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:: 26980
Domenico Ghirlandaio stories of St john the Baptist the Visitation
c 1490
detail of the fresco with (from right )Lucrezia Tornabuoni,Mother of Lorenzo,and Giovanna degli Albizi,Possibly represented twice as indicated by the jewel Florence,Santa Maria Novella,Cappella Tornabuoni (mk57)
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Painting ID:: 26983
Domenico Ghirlandaio,Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni
1488 detail Madrid,Thyssen Bornemisza collection (mk57)
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Painting ID:: 26984
Venus and the Graces offering gifts to a youg woman
Giovanna degli Albizi Tornabuoni?
c 1486 detached fresco from villa Lemmi at Legnaia.Paris,Musee du Louvre.(mk57)
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Painting ID:: 26987
Bardi Altarpiece
Detail of the Virgin represented as "Madonna del latte" and of vase with the icon of the Crucifixion.Berlin,Staatliche Museen,Gemaldegalerie (mk57)
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Painting ID:: 26989
St Barnabas Altarpiece
(Madonna enthroned with child and Saints)
C 1487
Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi (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: | Carl Johan Fahlcrantz | Sir Edward Coley Burne-jones,Bart.,ARA,RWS | Leonhard Beck | Albert Weisgerber | Chandler Winthrop |
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