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Sandro Botticelli

Italian Early Renaissance painter known for mythological and religious works.

Sandro Botticelli

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Sandro Botticelli (c. 1445 – May 17, 1510) was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.[1]

Quick Facts

Birth name
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi
Born
c. 1445
Birthplace
Florence, Republic of Florence (now Italy)
Died
17 May 1510
Place of death
Florence, Republic of Florence
Field
Painting
Training
Filippo Lippi
Movement
Italian Renaissance

Facts from the source article.

Life and work

Botticelli was born in Florence on Borgo Ognissanti, the youngest of four surviving children of tanner Mariano di Vanni d'Amedeo Filipepi and Smeralda Filipepi.[2] His birth date is not known, but tax returns place it between 1444 and 1446.[2] From around 1461 or 1462 he was apprenticed to Fra Filippo Lippi, learning to create intimate compositions with clear contours.[3] In 1481 Pope Sixtus IV summoned Botticelli to fresco the Sistine Chapel, where he painted three large scenes and many pope portraits.[4][5]

He painted a wide range of religious subjects including many Madonna and Child works.[6] Botticelli died in 1510 and was buried in Ognissanti.[2][7] The nickname "Botticelli," which translates to "little barrel," originated from the round physique of his brother Giovanni.[8] Primavera (c. 1482) and The Birth of Venus (c. 1485), his most renowned mythological works, rank among the globe's most celebrated paintings.[9]

What the cited sources add

The Open Library record for ISBN 0520033728 lists "Sandro Botticelli" as a 1978 publication by University of California Press.[10] The Open Library record for ISBN 0894683055 lists "Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century" as a 798-page work published by Oxford University Press, USA on January 23, 2004.[11]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Sandro Botticelli" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Ettlingers, 7. Other sources give 1446, 1447 or 1444–45. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Sandro Botticelli" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Lightbown, 17–19.; "Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century", National Gallery of Art, 2003; Ettlingers, 7. (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Sandro Botticelli" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Lightbown, 20–26. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Sandro Botticelli" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Shearman, 38–42, 47; Lightbown, 90–92; Hartt, 326. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Sandro Botticelli" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Shearman, 70–75; Hartt, 326–327. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Sandro Botticelli" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century", National Gallery of Art, 2003; Ettlingers, 199; Lightbown, 53, on the Pisa work, which does not survive. (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Sandro Botticelli" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Lightbown, 18–19.; Ettlingers, 12. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Sandro Botticelli" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Ettlingers, 7. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Sandro Botticelli" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Covered at length in: Lightbown, ch. 7 & 8; Wind, ch. V, VII and VIII; Ettlingers, ch. 3; Dempsey; Hartt, 329–334. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Open Library record, ISBN 0520033728 ("Sandro Botticelli"). CC0 (metadata); book content not read. openlibrary.org
  11. Open Library record, ISBN 0894683055 ("Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century (Publication of the National Gallery of Art, Washington)"). CC0 (metadata); book content not read. openlibrary.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Sandro Botticelli (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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