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Sandro Botticelli: Renaissance, Lorenzo de' Medici, Giorgio Vasari, The Birth of Venus, Primavera, Filippo Lippi, Masaccio, János Vitéz, Gothic Art, John Ruskin, Adoration of the Magi of 1475
Sandro Botticelli Renaissance Lorenzo de' Medici Giorgio Vasari The Birth of Venus Primavera Filippo Lippi Masaccio Jnos Vitz Gothic Art John Ruskin Adoration of the Magi of 1475 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli or Il Botticello ("The Little Barrel"; c. 1445 ? May 17, 1510) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (Quattrocento). Less than a hundred years later, this movement, under the patronage of L... more »orenzo de' Medici, was characterized by Giorgio Vasari as a "golden age", a thought, suitably enough, he expressed at the head of his Vita of Botticelli. His posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century; since then his work has been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting, and The Birth of Venus and Primavera rank now among the most familiar masterpieces of Florentine art.« less