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Sandro Botticelli
Detail of Cupid with eyes bandaged,shooting an arrow at Chastity
one of the Three Graces.Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi (mk57)
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Sandro Botticelli
Primavera
c 1482 detail of the face of Flora,The Latin goddess of Spring.Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi
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Sandro Botticelli
Primavera
c 1482
detail of Mercury Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi (mk57)
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Sandro Botticelli
The Birth of Venus
1484-1485
detail of Venus'face Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi (mk57)
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Sandro Botticelli
The Birth of Venus
1484--1485
detail of the Hour holding out to Venus a flowery red mantle.Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi (mk57)
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Sandro Botticelli
The Birth of Venus
1484--1485
detail of venus Florence,Galleria degli uffizi.(mk57)
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Sandro Botticelli
The Birth of Venus
1484--1485 detail of the winds zephyrus and Aura.Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi (mk57)
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Sandro Botticelli
Workshop of Botticelli,Portrait of a Young woman
1480-1485 wearing at her neck "Nero's seal" Frankfutr,Kunstinstitut Gemaldegalerie. (mk57)
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Sandro Botticelli
Pallas and the Centaur
1482-1485
detail of the centaur and whole painting.Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi. (mk57)
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Sandro Botticelli
Pallas and the Centaur
1482-1485
whole painting Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi.
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Sandro Botticelli
Venus and Mars
c 1483
London National Gallery (mk57)
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Sandro Botticelli
Venus and Mars
c 1483
detail of Mars and satyr with breastplate London National Gallery. (mk57)
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Sandro Botticelli
Piero di Cosimo,Venus and Mars
1490-1500
Berlin,Staatliche Museen (mk57)
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Sandro Botticelli
Domenico Ghirlandaio,The Calling of the first Apostles,Peter and Andrew
1481-1482
detail of group at right with Giovanni tornabuoni(?),uncle of Lorenzo the Magnificent and father of Lorenzo,the boy in the foreground wearing a short dark tunic,vatican city sistine Chapel. (mk57)
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Sandro Botticelli
Lorenzo Tornabuoni
before the assembly of the Liberal Arts (c 1486) detached fresco from villa Lemmi at Legnaia,Paris,Musee du Louvre (mk57)
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Sandro Botticelli
Domenico Ghirlandaio stories of St john the Baptist the Visitation
c 1490
detail of the fresco with (from right )Lucrezia Tornabuoni,Mother of Lorenzo,and Giovanna degli Albizi,Possibly represented twice as indicated by the jewel Florence,Santa Maria Novella,Cappella Tornabuoni (mk57)
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Sandro Botticelli
Domenico Ghirlandaio,Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni
1488 detail Madrid,Thyssen Bornemisza collection (mk57)
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Sandro Botticelli
Venus and the Graces offering gifts to a youg woman
Giovanna degli Albizi Tornabuoni?
c 1486 detached fresco from villa Lemmi at Legnaia.Paris,Musee du Louvre.(mk57)
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Sandro Botticelli
Bardi Altarpiece
Detail of the Virgin represented as "Madonna del latte" and of vase with the icon of the Crucifixion.Berlin,Staatliche Museen,Gemaldegalerie (mk57)
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Sandro Botticelli
St Barnabas Altarpiece
(Madonna enthroned with child and Saints)
C 1487
Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi (mk57)
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| Sandro Botticelli
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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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