ART SUNDAY--BOTTICELLI--

Sandro Botticelli
Probable self-portrait of Botticelli, in his Adoration of the Magi (1475).
Birth name	Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi
Born	c. 1445[1] Florence, Republic of Florence, (now Italy)
Died	May 17, 1510 (aged 64–65) Florence, Republic of Florence, (now Italy)
Nationality	Italian
Field	Painting
Training	Filippo Lippi Andrea del Verrocchio
Movement	Italian Renaissance
Works	Primavera The Birth of Venus The Adoration of the Magi Other Works
Influenced by	Fra Filippo Lippi

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli (Italian pronunciation: [ˈsandro bottiˈtʃɛlli]; c. 1445 – May 17, 1510) was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He belonged to the Florentine school under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, a movement that Giorgio Vasari would characterize less than a hundred years later as a "golden age", a thought, suitably enough, he expressed at the head of his Vita of Botticelli. Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century; since then his work has been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting. Among his best known works are The Birth of Venus and Primavera.

Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro Filipepi)

The Punishment of Korah and the Stoning of Moses and Aaron (detail 3) 1481-82

Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro Filipepi)

Portrait of Dante c. 1495

Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro Filipepi)

Madonna of the Magnificat (Madonna del Magnificat) 1480-81

Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro Filipepi)