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Sandro Botticelli

Also known as Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni de Filipepi, Sandro Filipepi Botticelli, Alessandro Filipepi, A. Boticello, Alexander Botticelli, Alessandro Botticelli, Sandro Bottichelli, Botticelli

Italian painter (1445–1510)

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Sandro Botticelli, born Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi in Florence, was a painter, draftsperson, and architectural draftsperson active during the Early Renaissance and the Florentine School. He studied under Filippo Lippi and Andrea del Verrocchio. His notable works include The Birth of Venus, Adoration of the Magi, Primavera, and Fortitude. He worked in Florence, Pisa, Rome, and Mantua, and his genres included portrait, history painting, religious painting, and mythological painting.

Botticelli was sponsored by Lorenzo de' Medici and adhered to the Catholic Church. He died in Florence in 1510 and is buried at Ognissanti Church. His works have been described in sources such as Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects and the Teutsche Academie der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste. He is referenced by numerous encyclopedia articles and appears in various library and music databases under his name.

Synthesized by Vinony from 38 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Europeana Sparql, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Alessandro
Gender: male
Citizenship: Italy
Place of birth: Florence
Place of death: Florence
Employer: Andrea del Verrocchio
Languages spoken: Italian
Religion: Catholic Church
Student of: Filippo Lippi
Genre: religious art
Movement: Florentine School
Image: Sandro Botticelli Self-portrait ca 1475.jpg
Work location: Mantua

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place of burial: Ognissanti Church
Commons category: Sandro Botticelli
date of birth: 1446-00-00
date of death: 1510-05-16
birth name: Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi
Commons gallery: Sandro Botticelli
Commons Creator page: Sandro Botticelli
topic's main category: Category:Sandro Botticelli
name in native language: Sandro Botticelli
sponsor: Lorenzo de' Medici
student: Filippino Lippi
ethnic group: Italians
name: Sandro di Botticello
pseudonym: di Mariano Filipepi, Alessandro
start of work period: 1460-01-01
end of work period: 1510-01-01

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Sandro Botticelli, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

INFERNO. CANTO SECONDO DELLA PRIMA CANTICA [Dante and Vergil with the vision of Beatrice]

The cleaning offering of the leper

Mary with the Child

Venus and three amos

La Primavera/Spring

Adoration of the Christ Child, folio 00104

Madonna with Child and Three Angels & Baldachin-Madonna

Venus

The Abandoned

Portrait of a Man

Portrait of a Man with a Medal of Cosimos of the Old

Holy Family

Minerva taming the centaur

The thorn-crowned Christ presents the wounds

Profile of a young woman

Praying Christ

Unidentified scene

Judith with the head of the Holofernes

Pietá

Dantes Paradies, Canto XXVIII: Dante in the highest celestial sphere

Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci

Mary with the child and little John

Female ideal (Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci as a Nymph)

The Birth of Venus

Mary with the Child and Singing Angels

Blessing Christ

Madonna del Magnificat & Madonna with Child and Four Angels

La Calunnia - The slander

Mary with the child and candelabra bearing angels

Madonna with Child and Angels

Portrait of a young woman in profile, with the attributes of Saint Catherine later added. Folio 00100

Christ on the Cross

Madonna with John the Baptist

Sacra Conversazione - altarpiece from the Chiesa di San Barnaba

Coronation of Mary

Madonna with angel choir

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Encyclopedic overview

Detail from Botticelli's most famous work, The Birth of Venus (c. 1484–1486)

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (c. 1445 – May 17, 1510), better known as Sandro Botticelli (/ˌbɒtɪˈtʃɛli/ BOT-ih-CHEL-ee; Italian: [ˈsandro bottiˈtʃɛlli]) or simply Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century, when he was rediscovered by the Pre-Raphaelites who stimulated a reappraisal of his work. Since then, his paintings have been seen to represent the linear grace of late Italian Gothic and some Early Renaissance painting, even though they date from the latter half of the Italian Renaissance period.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sandro Botticelli” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.