Artist Sandro Botticelli (1445 - 1510)

#GJWculture #Antiques #Art #ArtExplained #Paitting Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli, was born at around circa 1445 and He died in May 17 1510. He was an Italian Painter during the early period of the Renaissance at the Florentine School then supervised by 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"". As a Florentine painter of the high and regal Medici Family, he was noted for having made paintings such as the “The Birth of Venus”, “Primavera”, and the “Adoration of The Magi”. He is known to be one of the earliest artists of the Renaissance.
The Birth of Venus is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, probably made in the mid 1480s. It depicts the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth, when she had emerged from the sea fully-grown. The painting is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.
Primavera is a large panel painting in tempera paint by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli made in the late 1470s or early 1480s (datings vary). It has been described as ""one of the most written about, and most controversial paintings in the world"" and also ""one of the most popular paintings in Western art"".
""The Adoration of the Magi"" is Sandro Botticelli’s depiction of a famous scene, where the three Magi, or kings, bring gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh to lay before a baby Jesus. This was a popular theme among Renaissance painters, and Botticelli’s version dates back to around 1475 or 1476.
Venus and Mars (crica 1485)
Botticelli’s Venus and Mars is one of the more puzzling paintings that tackle a particular subject which was quite popular among Renaissance painters. In Botticelli’s painting, a beautiful and youthful Mars lies asleep, clearly spent.
The Mystical Nativity is a painting dated c. 1500–1501 by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, in the National Gallery in London. Botticelli built up the image using oil on canvas. It is his only signed work and has an unusual iconography for a painting of the Nativity.