Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510 CE), real name Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, was an Italian artist of the early Renaissance. A prolific painter, especially of altarpieces and works with a religious theme, Botticelli's most famous work today is, ironically, the mythological Birth of Venus which is now on display in the Uffizi Gallery of his native Florence. Widely regarded as one of the greatest painters in Western art, Botticelli blended colour, form, and perspective to produce religious and secular works with outstanding visual poetry. Reinterpreting and intertwining traditional imagery from classical mythology and Christian art, his paintings are often open to multiple interpretations.
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1445 - 1510Life of the Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli.
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1480 - 1484The Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli produces his painting the Birth of Venus.
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c. 1482The Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli produces his Primavera painting.
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1490 - 1492The Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli produces his Lamentation over the Dead Christ painting.
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c. 1500The Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli produces his Mystic Nativity painting.