Botticelli

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (1445 – 1510), known as Sandro Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.

As well as the small number of mythological subjects which are his best known works today, he painted a wide range of religious subjects and also some portraits. He and his workshop were especially known for their Madonna and Childs, many in the round tondo shape. Botticelli's best-known works are The Birth of Venus and Primavera, both in the Uffizi in Florence.

By the 1490s his style became more personal and Botticelli returned in some ways to the Gothic style. He has been described as "an outsider in the mainstream of Italian painting", who had a limited interest in many of the developments most associated with Quattrocento painting, such as the realistic depiction of human anatomy, perspective, and landscape, and the use of direct borrowings from classical art.

Periods: Early renaissance, Italian Renaissance, Renaissance, Florentine painting.