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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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Portrait of a Youth with a Medal
c 1475
Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi (mk57)
Painting ID:: 26848
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Portrait_of_a_Youth_with_a_Medal
c 1475
Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi (mk57)
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Adoration of the Magi
1475-1476
detail of youth in a red tunic,standing on the left (Giuliano de' Medici?)Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi (mk57)
Painting ID:: 26849
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Adoration_of_the_Magi
1475-1476
detail of youth in a red tunic,standing on the left (Giuliano de' Medici?)Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi (mk57)
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Giorgio vasari,Portrait of Lorenzo the Magnificent
1534
Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi. (mk57)
Painting ID:: 26857
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Giorgio_vasari,Portrait_of_Lorenzo_the_Magnificent
1534
Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi. (mk57)
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Portrait of Giuliano de'Medici
c 1478
Washington National Gallery of Art
Painting ID:: 26862
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Portrait_of_Giuliano_de'Medici
c 1478
Washington National Gallery of Art
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Personage wearing a green mantle third in the group on the left
Pico della Mirandola? (mk57)
Painting ID:: 26869
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Personage_wearing_a_green_mantle_third_in_the_group_on_the_left
Pico della Mirandola? (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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