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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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Madonna enthroned with Child and Saints (Mary Magdalene,John the Baptist,Cosmas and Damien,Sts Francis and Catherine of Alexandria)
1470-1472
Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi (mk57)
Painting ID:: 26838
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Madonna_enthroned_with_Child_and_Saints_(Mary_Magdalene,John_the_Baptist,Cosmas_and_Damien,Sts_Francis_and_Catherine_of_Alexandria)
1470-1472
Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi (mk57)
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Adoration of the Magi
1472--1474
London,National Gallery
Painting ID:: 26839
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Adoration_of_the_Magi
1472--1474
London,National Gallery
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Portrait of a Young Man
1470--1473
Florence,Palazzo Pitti,Galleria Palatina.
Painting ID:: 26841
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Portrait_of_a_Young_Man
1470--1473
Florence,Palazzo Pitti,Galleria Palatina.
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Portrait of Smeralda Brandini
1470--1472
London,Victoria and Albert Museum. (mk57)
Painting ID:: 26842
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Portrait_of_Smeralda_Brandini
1470--1472
London,Victoria and Albert Museum. (mk57)
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Hans Memling,Man with a Medal
c 1480
Antwerp,Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten. (mk57)
Painting ID:: 26843
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Hans_Memling,Man_with_a_Medal
c 1480
Antwerp,Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten. (mk57)
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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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