13 Paintings, scenes from the Bible, by The Old Masters, Sandro Botticelli, with footnotes #28

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, known as Sandro Botticelli (c. 1445 — May 17, 1510), was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He belonged to the Florentine School under the patronage of Lorenzo de’ Medici, a movement that Giorgio Vasari would characterize less than a hundred years later in his Vita of Botticelli as a “golden age”. Botticelli’s posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century; since then, his work has been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting…

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