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The dark background is meant to focus the attention to Virgin Mary making eye contact with the viewer.

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The Virgin with Child and Saint John and Two Angels

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The Virgin with Child and Saint John and Two Angels

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Both the Virgin and Child are making eye contact with the viewer.

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Four Scenes of the Early life of Saint Zenobius

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Four Scenes of the Early life of Saint Zenobius

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This was the first scene of four, of the Early life of Saint Zenobius.

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Outside, the two slender trees echo the tender embrace between the Virgin and Child Christ.

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The Virgin with Child and with Saint John and an Angel

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The Virgin with Child and with Saint John and an Angel

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This is one of the most significant paintings of Virgin Mary and was restored in 2018-19.

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The Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist

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The Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist

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The virgin is gazing upon her son, Christ, with his cousin Saint John the Baptist.

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This is the second set of four panels; together they tell the biography of Florentine Bishop, Saint Zenobius.

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Saint Francis of Assisi was a Catholic frair who gave up a life of wealth to live in poverty.

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This painting is dated in the early 1470’s and was a work alongside Filipino Lippi.

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An ideally beautiful young woman, mythologized as a nymph or goddess.

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This piece depicts a scene of joy and celebration, earthly and heavenly delight with angels dancing at the top.

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The Virgin and Child with the Pomegranate 

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The Virgin and Child with the Pomegranate 

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The pomegranate held by the child is a Christian symbol of Resurrection.

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Portraits used to only show half the face or three quarters of the face. Botticelli did this painting head on which was revolutionary for it’s time.

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One of the most famous paintings in western art, depicts a series of figures from classical mythology in a garden or woodland.

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Botticelli’s depiction of Dante’s nine circles of hell poem.

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This is a recreation of a lost painting by Ancient Greek Artist, Apelles.

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The goddess of love sailing to shore on a giant shell.

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Venus, goddess of love and Mars, god of war; a scene after love making.

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This piece of art depicts several members of the Medici Family.Botticelli added himself to the right edge of the painting.