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Sandro Botticelli

about 1445–1510

Sandro Botticelli. Possible self-portrait, detail of Adoration of the Magi, 1470–1475.
Sandro Botticelli. Possible self-portrait, detail of Adoration of the Magi, 1470–1475.

Botticelli trained with Filippo Lippi and had his own workshop by 1470. Medici patrons and their circle commissioned ambitious secular paintings. In 1481 he was called to Rome to work in the Sistine Chapel, adding papal commissions to his Florentine practice.

Works

Spring (Primavera) — Sandro BotticelliSandro Botticelli

Spring (Primavera)

Adoration of the Magi — Sandro BotticelliSandro Botticelli

Adoration of the Magi

Virgin and Child with an Angel — Sandro BotticelliSandro Botticelli

Virgin and Child with an Angel

The Last Communion of Saint Jerome — Sandro BotticelliSandro Botticelli

The Last Communion of Saint Jerome

The Adoration of the Magi — Sandro BotticelliSandro Botticelli

The Adoration of the Magi

The Birth of Venus — Sandro BotticelliSandro Botticelli

The Birth of Venus

Sources

Sandro Botticelli, possible self-portrait in Adoration of the Magi, 1470–1475. Uffizi Galleries. Public-domain reproduction via Wikimedia Commons. Portrait source · Licence