Sandro Botticelli
By Joseph Quintal
Biography
- Born in Florence, Italy in 1445
- Spend most of his life in Florence, Italy
- An apprentice to Fillipus Lippi
- Sandro was a goldsmith until he began painting at the Florentine School of Art
- He was a painter
- Lorenzo d'Medici was his patron
The Work
- Virgin and Child
- Created in 1466
- This is significant because it is different from most renaissance art. It has the Virgin Mary which was not that common because humanism had taken over
- The Vigin Mary is holding her newborn baby Jesus, with an intricate depiction of the holy city of Jerusalem
- Scientific Naturalism because of the intricate natural background
- This piece is interesting because it focuses on religion unlike any other painting of the renaissance time period
- You can see a picture of this piece on different reference sites such as Wikipedia and ARTstor
Works Cited
"Sandro Botticelli." Encyclopedia of World Biography. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Biography in
Context. Web. 19 Nov. 2013.
"ARTstor Library." ARTstor Library. ARTstor, n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.