Alessandro Botticelli
Alessandro Botticelli Biography
Alessandro (Sandro) Botticelli was born in Florence in 1444 or 1445, the fourth son of Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, a tanner. Alessandro's nickname was derived from the one given to his eldest brother Giovanni, who, because of his corpulence, was called "Il Botticello" (little barrel). It is believed that Botticelli was apprenticed as a goldsmith before being sent, probably in the beginning of the 1460s, to Fra Filippo Lippi in order to study painting.
Since 1470, Botticelli ran his own workshop in Florence and, in 1472, he became a member of the St. Luke's Guild. His early woks were mostly small religious pieces. In 1470, he was commissioned...
Alessandro Botticelli 61 Most Important Paintings and Artworks
- Madonna And Child, Two Angels And The Young St. John The Baptist.
c.1467. Tempera on panel. Galleria dell' Accademia, Florence, Italy. Read Note.
- Madonna Della Loggia.
c.1467. Tempera on panel. Galleria dell' Accademia, Florence, Italy.
- Judith's Return To Bethulia.
c.1469-1470. Tempera on panel. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy. Read Note.
- Discovery Of The Body Of Holofernes.
c.1469-1470. Tempera on panel. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy. Read Note.
- Madonna In Glory.
c.1469-1470. Tempera on panel. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
- Madonna Of The Rosegarden.
c.1470. Tempera on panel. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
- Madonna And Child And Two Angels.
c.1470. Tempera on panel. Museo e Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy.
- Madonna Of The Eucharist.
c.1470. Tempera on panel. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, USA.
- Fortitude.
c.1470. Tempera on panel. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
- Madonna And Child With Six Saints.
c.1470. Tempera on panel. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy. Read Note.
- Adoration Of The Magi.
c.1470-1474. Tempera on panel. National Gallery, London, UK. Read Note.
- St. Sebastian.
1474. Tempera on panel. Staatliche Museen Preubischer Kulturbesitz, Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany. Read Note.
- Adoration Of The Magi.
c.1475. Tempera on panel. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy. Read Note.
- Portrait Of A Young Man.
c.1470-1473. Tempera on panel. Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy.
- Portrait Of A Man With The Medal Of Cosmo The Elder.
c.1474-1475. Tempera on panel. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
- Portrait Of A Lady (Smeralda Brandini?).
c.1470-1475. Tempera on panel. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.
- Portrait Of A Woman.
c.1475. Tempera on panel. Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy.
- Portrait Of Giuliano De' Medici.
c.1476-1477. Tempera on panel. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA. Read Note.
- Madonna And Child With Eight Angels (Tondo Raczynski).
c.1478. Tempera on panel. Staatliche Museen Preubischer Kulturbesitz, Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
- Madonna Del Libro.
c.1480. Tempera on panel. Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy.
Alessandro Botticelli Bibliography
Painting of Europe. XIII-XX centuries. Encyclopedic Dictionary. Moscow. Iskusstvo. 1999.
Botticelli. by V. Graszhenkov. Moscow. 1962.
Sandro Botticelli. by T. Kustodiyeva. Leningrad. 1971.
Sandro Botticelli. by G. Dunayev. Moscow. 1977.
Botticelli by Federico Zeri (Editor), Marco Dolcetta (Editor), Sandro Botticelli. NDE Publishing, 2000.
Sandro Botticelli: Life and Work by Ronald Lightbown. Abbeville Press, 1989.
The Painter's Daughter: The Story of Sandro Botticelli and Alessandra Lippi by Carolyn Street LaFond. Frederic C. Beil Publisher, 2002.
Sandro Botticelli: The Picture Cycle for Dante's Divine Comedy by Hein-Thomas Altcappenberg. Royal Academy Books, 2000.
Botticelli by Pierluigi De Vecchi, Daniel Arasse. Skira, 2004.
Sandro Botticelli 1444/45-1510 (Basic Art) by Taschen, Barbara Deimling. Taschen, 2000.
