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Sandro Botticelli Venus and Mars (mk36) c.1483
London,National Gallery
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Sandro Botticelli Piero di Cosimo,Venus and Mars (mk36) 1490-1500
Berlin,Staatliche Museen.
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Sandro Botticelli Lorenzo Tornabuoni before the assembly of the Liberal Arts (mk36) c.1486
detached fresco from Villa Lemmi at Legnaia'detail of Lorenzo and Grammar.Paris,Musee du Louvre
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Sandro Botticelli Domenico Ghirlandaio,The Calling of the first Apostles,peter and Andrew (mk36) 1481-1482
detail of group at right with Giovanni Tornabuoni
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Sandro Botticelli Lorenzo Tornabuoni before the assembly of the Liberal Arts (mk36) c.1486
detached fresco from Villa Lemmi at Legnaia,Paris,Musee du Louvre
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Sandro Botticelli Domenico Ghirlandaio,Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni (mk36) 1488
etail.
Madrid,
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Sandro Botticelli Domenico Ghirlandaio,Stories of St John the Baptist,The Visitation (mk36) c.1490
details of the fresco with Lucrezia Tornabuoni,mother of Lorenzo,and Giovanna degli Albizi,possibly represented twice as indicated by the jewel.Florence,Santa Maria Novella,Cappella Tornabuoni
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Sandro Botticelli Venus and the Graces offering gifts to a young woman (mk36) c.1486
detached fresco from Villa Lemmi at Legnaia.Paris,Musee du Louvre
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Sandro Botticelli Bardi Altarpiece (mk36) 1485
detail of St john the Baptist and of Vase filled with lilies and olive branches,Berlin,Staatliche Museen,Gemaldegalerie
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Sandro Botticelli Bardi Altarpiece (mk36) 1485
Berlin,Staatliche Museen,Gemaldegalerie
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Sandro Botticelli Bardi Altarpiece (mk36) 1485
detail of the Virgin represented as "Madonna del latte"
and of vase with the icon of the Crucifixion.Berlin,Staatliche Museen.Gemaldegalerie
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Sandro Botticelli St Barnabas Altarpiece (mk36) c.1487
Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi
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Sandro Botticelli St Barnabas Altarpiece (mk36) c.1487
detail of the Madonna enthroned with St Barnabas
Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi
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Sandro Botticelli detail of predella of the St Barnabas Altarpiece (mk36) c.1487
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Sandro Botticelli Vision of Augustine with a boy beside the sea (mk36) Ecce homo
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Sandro Botticelli Salome with the head of St john the Baptist (mk36)
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Sandro Botticelli Extracting the heart of St Ignatius Bishop. Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi
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Sandro Botticelli Annunciation (mk36) whole and detail of Announcing Angel
1489
Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi
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Sandro Botticelli Details of Annunciation (mk36)
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Sandro Botticelli Madonna and Child with six Angels or Madonna of the Pomegranate (mk36) 1487
Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi
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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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