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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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St Augustine in his Study
(c 1480)detail of the Vespucci coat-of-arms.Florence,Ognissanti (mk57)
Painting ID:: 26889
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St_Augustine_in_his_Study
(c 1480)detail of the Vespucci coat-of-arms.Florence,Ognissanti (mk57)
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Annunciation of San Martino alla Scala
1481
Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi (mk57
Painting ID:: 26891
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Annunciation_of_San_Martino_alla_Scala
1481
Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi (mk57
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Madonna and child or Madonna of the book
1480-1481 Milan,Museo Poldi Pezzoli (mk57)
Painting ID:: 26892
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Madonna_and_child_or_Madonna_of_the_book
1480-1481 Milan,Museo Poldi Pezzoli (mk57)
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Madonna of the Magnificat
1480--1481
Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi (mk57)
Painting ID:: 26893
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Madonna_of_the_Magnificat
1480--1481
Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi (mk57)
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Portrait of Dante Alighieri
1490-1495
Le grand cologny(Geneva),Bodmer Collection. (mk57)
Painting ID:: 26894
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Portrait_of_Dante_Alighieri
1490-1495
Le grand cologny(Geneva),Bodmer Collection. (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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