(1445, Firenze - 1510, Firenze)
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Sandro Botticelli
(1445, Firenze - 1510, Firenze)
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| 1445 | Born in Florence. The son of a tanner. His nickname is from Botticello ("little barrel") |
| Early years Apprenticed to goldsmith, Fra Filippo Lippi. Influenced by Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Andrea del Verrocchio. | |
| 1470 | Had his own workshop.Work for the great families of Florence, especially the Medici family. |
| 1475-76 | Portrait of the Giuliano di Medici |
| 1476-77 | Adoration of the Magi |
| Part of the intellectual and artistic circle at the court of Lorenzo di Medici Influenced by Christian Neoplatonism | |
| 1478 | Primavera |
| 1480 | Saint Augustine |
| 1481 | Go to Rome, Sistine Chapel The Youth of Moses, The Punishment of the Sons of Corah, The Temptation of Christ |
| 1482 | Birth of Venus |
| 1480s | Madonna of the Magnificat, Madonna of the Pomegranate |
| 1485 | Madonna and Child with Tow Saints |
| 1490 | Coronation of the Virgin |
| Influenced by Dominican monk Girolamo Savonarola* | |
| 1490s | Pieta, The Mystic Nativity |
| 1496 | Mystic Crucifixion |
| 1510 | Died in Florence. Buried in Onisanti |
| Savonarola The fifteenth century was a period of reform movements within the Church-- reformations before the Protestant Reformation--led mainly by ascetic monks and friars who tightened up the rules of their own orders and never ceased to exhort the laity to more intense devotion. It was to culminate in the 1490s with Saonarola, the Dominican preacher who denounced the Medici and their artists, poets and philosophers in a spirit of extreme puritanism. |