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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:: 33393
The Birth of Venus
mk86
c.1485
Tempera on canvas
172.5x278.5cm
Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi
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Painting ID:: 38442
The Verkundigung
mk137
ca.1489-1490 Tempera on wood chalkboard 150x156cm Galleria degli Uffizi,
Florence
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Painting ID:: 38462
The adoration of the Konige
mk137
ca.1470-1475 Tempera on Pappelholz,Tondo,Durchmesser:130.8cm The
nationally Gallery, London
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Painting ID:: 38471
Portrat of Giuliano de-Medici
mk137
1478-1480 Tempera on wood chalkboard 75.5x52.5cm nationally
Gallery of type Washington, D. C
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Painting ID:: 38485
Portrat of Dante
mk137
1485 Tempera on linen 54.7x47.5cm
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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: | Baciccio | Leo von Klenze | RING, Ludger tom, the Younger | PIAZZA, Callisto | Philippe de Momper |
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