"Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi was born around 1445 in Florence, Italy to Mariano di Vanni dei Filipepi(a tanner) and his wife, Smeralda."
Sandro Botticelli was a nickname that he took. Sandro was short for Alessandro, and Botticelli is derived from Botticello("little barrel") which was his brother's nickname.
Leonardo da Vinci did not complete his painting. Botticelli painted the same subject.
It lacks mathematical perspective
All paintings ar 2 d. Sculptures are 3 d, meaning you can walk around them and see them from different directions.
Zephyrus carries Chloris and blows venus to shore who is met by the nymph Pomona.
he painted mythological characters instead of religious ones.
To me it looks like a magnified Coquille Saint Jaques. (pilgrim scallop)
Simple Answer: scallop
No. He is famous for his intricate details and realistic portraits of people(faces, bodies)
He painted the ideas of the Neoplatonist philosophers and poets.
Since Botticelli existed in such an old time period, there aren't any known quotes by him but someone else said since they were in the Italian renaissance period, you should try searching in Italian. :) im looking for some too and cant find any
Sandro Botticelli has written:
'Botticelli 1444/5-1510'
'Drawings by Sandro Botticelli for Dante's Divina Comedia'
'Sandro Botticelli - c1445-1510 -'
'Botticelli, Divina Comedie' -- subject- s -: Illustrations
'The work of Botticelli'
'Boticelli'
'Drawings by Botticelli'
'Botticelli' -- subject- s -: Accessible book, Lending library
'The drawings by Sandro Botticelli for Dante's Divine Comedy'
'Botticelli [di] Sergio Bettini'
'Botticelli drawings'
'The nativity in the National Gallery, London'
'Zeichnungen von Sandro Botticelli zu Dante's Goettlicher Komoedie'
'Opera completa del Botticelli' -- subject- s -: Catalogs
Alessandro Filipepi, known as Sandro Botticelli, (1444-1510) began his career during the Italian Renaissance period. Botticelli was born in Florence around 1445 where he would live out the rest of his life. As the youngest of five children, Botticelli's father, a tanner, allowed him to become an apprentice to a goldsmith. During this apprenticeship, the goldsmith he worked with gave him the name Botticelli, meaning 'little barrel.'
After a time, Sandro convinced his father that he wanted to study painting and was chosen to be apprentice to the well known painter Fra Filippo Lippi. Lippi was well known for how he used color on church altarpieces and helped Sandro discover a similar style for his own work. Sandro Botticelli developed tender expressions in his subjects face and in their gestures. He also used decorative details that were influenced by his training. Botticelli quickly became recognized as a gifted artist all by himself. By the time he was 15 years old, he was able to open a workshop dedicated to his own work.
In Sandro Botticelli's workshop, he chose to have many apprentices to help him complete his work. Sandro taught them to set up and prepare his supplies so he could concentrate on painting. When Sandro thought one of his apprentices was ready, he had some of them paint for him under his close supervision. Using these practices, he was able to produce large amounts of commissioned work.
Botticelli's style evolved into one that was very distinct. His portraits seemed to have a melancholy or sad characteristic to them. Sandro stressed line and detail using them to bring his characters alive - as if acting out a scene. He included in his style a flowing characteristic that would clearly identify work as his. Botticelli also included Neo-Platonism in his work. This meant that he would bring together in one painting ideas that belong to both Christianity and pagan ideas which may have included mythology. One theme that Botticelli used over and over again was the idea of a very sad young girl that was detached from what was going on around her. This theme appeared in many of his portraits throughout his career. Another theme Botticelli liked tackling were the roles male and females played in society. Sometimes Sandro would show traditional roles, but other times, he showed females as the dominant, most important figure.
Sandro Botticelli's work was most in demand by the Medici family. The Medici's were a very rich and prominent member of the Florence society. Botticelli is thought to have used them as subjects for a large number of his works. They traveled in very important circles and introduced Botticelli to some of the most influential people. In these different settings, Sandro gathered material to use in his portraits and scene portrayals. The Medici family would pay huge sums of money for Botticelli's work.
In 1481, Botticelli was invited to Rome to take part in the painting of the Sistine Chapel. Sandro joined artists such as Perugino, Ghirlandaio and then Michelangelo in contributing to the most well known piece of Italian art. While there, Botticelli worked on several pieces in the Chapel. In all, Botticelli painted three large pieces, as well as seven papal portraits in the Sistine Chapel.
As Sandro grew older, his style underwent a remarkable change. Sandro became a follower of the monk Savonarola who was a prominent civic leader in Florence. He stressed giving up all worldly things. He was very charismatic and often spoke of death and God's wrath upon the people. Many of Botticelli's previous paintings were considered ungodly and were burned along with objectionable books and playing cards. When Savonarola's popularity ended, he was burnt in the center of Florence. Many followers fled the city, but Botticelli stayed and continued to paint. Many of his works contained a very religious feel to them. Sandro included highly religious symbolism in his paintings; they seemed to be telling a story. Sandro became known as an excellent altarpiece painter and earned large amounts of money through those commissions.
Botticelli's later years seemed to be a disturbing time for him. As times changed in Florence, Botticelli tried to keep up. He often took on difficult commissions that other painters turned down. His rotating style reflected that Botticelli was struggling as a painter. His paintings were full of emotion raging from violence to grace and compassion.
Even though Sandro was trying to keep up his status as a painter, he was still recognized with the honor to be part of the committee that chose the spot where Michelangelo would place his statue David.
Sandro Botticelli died at the age of 65. Some say Sandro was poor and unaccomplished at his death. This could be attributed to the rising popularity of new and contemporary artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo Da Vinci. Even though his work is now thought to be among the most masterful of his time, his work lay forgotten for over 400 years after his death. Looking back at history, he now has the respect he earned through a lifetime of achievement. Sandro Botticelli contribution to the Italian Renaissance period was one of great distinction.
Botticelli is most famous for painting the "Birth of Venus" and " Primavera".
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He painted what he was paid to paint. He didn't have a choice. So as to inspiration for the subject matter, it was simply what buyers wanted-no inspiration.
But as to messages inside his works, many(including myself) think that Simonetta Vespucci was the love of his life that served as his muse(her face appeared multiple times through his paintings).
Botticelli's Venus was the first large-scale canvas created in Renaissance Florence. He prepared his own tempera pigments with very little fat and covered them with a layer of pure egg white in a process unusual for his time. His painting resembles a fresco in its freshness and brightness. It is preserved exceptionally well and the painting today remains firm and elastic with very little cracks. For more info, view the related link below.
Botticelli depicted a scene from Classical mythology; Dürer idealized his image and used many details.
The following link explains Savanarola's impact on the lives on many, by destroying what he viewed as 'earthly pleasures' and burned them in 'bonfires of the vanities'. His impact was great on Renaissance art. For more information,, I would check out the website.