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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:: 33370
Pallas and the Centaur
mk86
c.1482
Tempera on canvas
207x148cm
Florence.Galleria degli Uffizi
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Painting ID:: 33389
Venus and Mars
mk86
c.1480
Tempera on wood
69x174cm
London,Ntional Gallery
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Painting ID:: 33390
Madonna del Magnificat
mk86
c.1481/82
Tempera on wood
diameter 115cm
Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi
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Painting ID:: 33391
Pieta
mk86
after1490
Tempera on wood
140x207cm
Munich,Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen,Alte Pinakothek
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Painting ID:: 33392
La Primavera
mk86
c.1477/78
Tempera on wood
203x314cm
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: | Rudolf Wiegmann | William Bruce Ellis Ranken | Sir Joshua Reynolds | Julian Scott | Frederick goodall,R.A. |
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