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About Botticelli

azlinnmauldin — 2024-01-24 18:05:52 UTC

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli was an Italian painter in the early Renaissance. Born in Florance, Italy in about 1445 to Mariano di Vanni dei Filipepi and Smeralda Filipepi; Dying, on May 17, 1510, in Florance, Italy.

Mediums

azlinnmauldin — 2024-01-24 18:15:55 UTC

Botticelli used painting as his medium and his work was mostly mythologically biased; creating many popular mythology paintings about Greek and Roman myths. mostly using the Roman versions of these myths.

Botticelli's patronage

azlinnmauldin — 2024-01-24 18:17:39 UTC

Sandro Botticelli was one of the earliest Renaissance painters and he was heavily supported by the Medici family for his skill in portraiture, doing portraits of the Medici family those Medici family members being Lorenzo, Cosimo, Giuliano, and Peiro.

Was Botticelli a "Renaissance man?"

azlinnmauldin — 2024-01-25 18:02:24 UTC

Botticelli was not a Renaissance man because he only focused on one vocal point while a true Renaissance man was multi-fascinated.

Sources

azlinnmauldin — 2024-01-25 18:03:59 UTC

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sandro-Botticelli/Secular-patronage-and-works

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/sandro-botticelli

https://www.artble.com/artists/sandro_botticelli/more_information/style_and_technique

https://www.worldhistory.org/venus/

https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/botticelli-paintings/pallas-and-centaur

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primavera_%28Botticelli%29#Composition

https://www.artnews.com/feature/sandro-botticelli-who-is-he-why-is-he-important-1234581919/

Birth of Venus

azlinnmauldin — 2024-01-25 18:09:28 UTC

The Birth of Venus is a painting of how the Roman goddess of love and fertility was created. She is the Roman counterpart of Aphrodite and they have a similar birth story of coming from seafoam after Caelus the Roman version of Uranus's penis was cut off by his son who usurped him.

Primavera

azlinnmauldin — 2024-01-26 06:15:42 UTC

This painting has mythological meaning but as far as anyone is aware there is no exact story behind why these people are all in this one place but most speculate it's an allegory for a lush green spring.

Pallas and the Centaur

azlinnmauldin — 2024-01-26 06:18:40 UTC

Pallas and the Centaur is based on a Roman mythological story of a sworn hunter of Daina or Artamis who is the goddess of hunt and virginity. this hunter Pallas is holding a centaur a creature resembling uncontrolled desire and passion by the hair showing she has control over the centaur and overall it's a symbol that this hunter has control over her desire and passion.