Sandro Botticelli is a renaissance artist who painted several works of art in the Renaissance period contemporary to Michaelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci.

1. Alessandro di Mariano di
Vanni Filipepi
1447-1510
Sandro Botticelli

2. Renaissance
The rebirth of knowledge
time of discovery and exploration
Botticelli's time in the Lippi's
workshop allowed him the chance to do
both; he explored, and through that
exploration he discovered.

3. BOTTICEL
LI
“little barrel”
“small wine
cask”

4. Full Name: Alessandro di Mariano
Filipepi Botticelli
Short Name: Botticelli
Date of Birth: 1445
Date of Death: 17 May 1510
Focus: Paintings
Mediums: Oil
Subjects: Figure
Art Movement: Renaissance
Hometown: Florence, Italy

5. Alternative career:
Like many talented artists, Botticelli
initially trained in a career completely
different to his abilities as an artist.
Sandro Botticelli was initially trained
by his brother Antonio to be a
Goldsmith before his real gift as a
painter was actualized by his first

6. Botticelli’s Work of
Art
Contribution to Renaissance
Art

8. While most critics agree that the
painting, depicting a group of mythological
figures in a garden, is allegorical for the lush
growth of Spring, other meanings have also
been explored. Among them, the work is
sometimes cited as illustrating the ideal of
Neoplatonic love. The painting itself carries
no title and was first called La Primavera by
the art historian Giorgio Vasari who saw it
at Villa Castello, just outside Florence, in
1550.

10. Many historians note that Botticelli
suffered from unrequited love towards
the model of his Birth of Venus painting.
Despite this popular claim the artist was
at one point in his life charged with
sodomy and the summary of the charge
noted that "Botticelli keeps a boy".

11. Other works…
Sandro Botticelli

12. Annunciation

13. Adoration of the Magi

14. Inferno, Canto XVIII

15. Chart of Hell

16. Saint Sebastian
Minerva and the Centaur

17. Portrait of a Woman
(Allegorical Portrait of
Simonetta Vespuccil)
Portrait of a Young
Man

18. Temptation of Christ, Bearer of the Law
of the Gospel

19. Temptation of Moses, Bearer of the
Written Law

20. Conturbation of the Laws of Moses
(The Punishment of Korah)

21. First Episodes in the Tale of Nastagio
degli Onesti

22. Virgin and Child Enthroned between
Saint John the Baptist and Saint John the
Evangelist

23. Madonna of the Pomegranate

24. Venus and Mars

25. Lamentation of
Christ
Trinity with Mary Magdalene,
John the Baptist
and Tobias and the Angel

26. Mystical
Nativity

27. Botocelli was influenced by
several people/artists…
Influences

28. Filippo
Lippi

29. Girolamo
Savonarola
Ferrara

30. Lorenzo
de'
Medici

31. Others:
Andrea delVerrocchio & Antonio del Pollaiuolo
Pope Sixtus IV

32. Style of painting
•Religious theme
• Saints & angels or Biblical subject
•Mythological works
•Christian Neoplatonism
• pagan and Christian love
•Human figure (Naturalism)
• sad or melancholic style
•Allegory (has an underlying meaning)

33. Medium of Art
Tempera Grassa
a medium in which the egg yolk was modified
by the addition of oil to make the paint
more transparent.
Colors
malachite, verdigris (copper
green), ultramarine, cinnabar, red, white
and yellow lead, red lake and carbon
black

34. Brush stroke
Botticelli's technique is at its most refined in painting the
flesh tones, in which semi-transparent ochres, whites,
cinnabars and red lakes are laid over one another in such
minute brush strokes that the gradations are all but
invisible.
Method
poplar coated with gesso
careful under-drawing in charcoal, done freehand without
a cartoon, and the architectural features were indicated by
incised lines made with a stylus.

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