Boticelli biography
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Summary of Sandro Botticelli
Botticelli was perhaps the greatest humanist painter of the Early Renaissance, yet much of his life and influences remain a mystery to us today. His paintings represent the pinnacle of the cultural flourishing of the Medicis' Florence, a prosperous society that encouraged the progress of art, philosophy and literature. Throughout his long career he was commissioned to paint many different subjects, but at the heart of his work he always strove towards beauty and virtue, the qualities represented by the goddess Venus, who is the subject of many of his most famous paintings.
Accomplishments
- Influenced by the revival of Greek and Roman ideas in Florence at the time, Botticelli was one of the first Western artists since classical times to depict non-religious subject matter. The idea that art could be for pleasure, and not only serve religious purposes was a breakthrough for Western art.
- Botticelli bridged the gap between the Medieval Gothic style of
- Name: Sandro Botticelli
- Birth Year: 1445
- Birth City: Florence
- Birth Country: Italy
- Gender: Male
- Best Known For: Sandro Botticelli was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance-era. He contributed to the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel and painted the immortal The Birth of Venus.
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- Death Year: 1510
- Death date: May 17, 1510
- Death City: Florence
- Death Country: Italy
- Article Title: Sandro Botticelli Biography
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Sandro Botticelli - Alessandro Filipepi
In the Biography of Botticelli, written by Giorgio Vasari for The Lives of the Artists, it begins, “In the time of Lorenzo de’Medici, ‘Il Magnifico’, a truly golden age for dock of talent, there flourished an artist name Alessandro…” Born Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, called Sandro Botticelli; the artist was praised by Vasari, but later the Florentine painter’s reputation was re-enlivened in the 19th Century and since then his two masterpieces, The Birth of Venus and, Primavera, have become known as the most familiar masterpieces of the Early Renaissance in Florence. Both works are housed in the Uffizi galleri, among many in the Uffizi’s Botticelli Room. While Botticelli studied design under his brother Antonio, a goldsmith, his artistic training as a painter was formulated greatly under Fra’ Filippo Lippi (1406 – 1469). By 1470, Botticelli started his own studio, painting in a style influenced by the Quattrocento master, Masaccio
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Sandro Botticelli
(1445-1510)
Synopsis
Sandro Botticelli was born in the mid-1440s in Florence, Italy. As a boy, he apprenticed as a goldsmith and then with master painter Filippo Lippi. By his forties, Botticelli was himself a master and contributed to the decoration the Sistine Chapel. His best known work is The Birth of Venus. He died in 1510.
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