SANDRO BOTTICELLI

BIOGRAPHICAL INFO

• Full name: Alessandro di Mariano di vanni filipepi
• Place/ date of birth: in Florence 1447
• Place/ date of death: May 17 1510
• Type of artwork: paintings
• Media: oil

SELF PORTRAIT 1475

• Style: Renaissance
• Favorite quote: The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.
• Interesting facts: he was known for his religious paintings but farmhouse for his painting of mythical creatures.
• He wanted to make his paintings beautiful in a fantasy way.
• He used his paintbrush as a pen to outline or add lines around people.

MADONNA AND CHILD WITH SINGING ANGELS

TRIALS OF MOSES

CALUMNY OF APELLES

Botticelli’s fame faded after his death in 1510, this is his only signed painting.

• Subject matter: religious painting
• Style: early renaissance
• Feelings: I feel that angels are with me because he painted a lot of angles in this painting
• My favorite part is the setting in the background because it is so detailed.
• Mystic nativity 1500