Sandro Botticelli

in the Renaissance. Sandro Botticelli was born on the 17 of May in 1446. When young, Botticelli was trained to become a goldsmith by his brother Antonio. He later then decided to become an artist. At the age of fourteen he became an apprentice. He was apprenticed by an artist named Fra Filippo Lippi. Most of his working’s have been attributed to his master. Lippi greatly influenced Botticelli in his workings. Botticelli learned a lot from his master Lippy. Lippy taught Botticelli about panel…

at Maryville College and it was the one that stuck out the most to me. It is a unique, mythological painting from the Renaissance Period painted in Florence, Italy. The Birth of Venus belongs to the group of mythological pictures painted by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) in the 1480s, following his return from Rome after completing three fresco paintings in the Sistine Chapel for Pope Sixtus IV. The Birth of Venus remains one of the profound treasures of the Florentine Renaissance. The work,…

In 1483-1485 Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici commissioned the painting of The birth of Venus. Artist Sandro Botticelli completed this work of patronage for the Medici family. Using tempera on panel this piece is about 9 feet high and 6 feet wide, creating a larger than life element to this piece. This piece was originally titled La nascita di Venere and today can be viewed in the Uffizi Gallery, but was originally for the villa of Castello owned by the Medici family. This famous…

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (Sandro Botticelli) was an Italian painter in the beginning of the Renaissance. His work predates some other famous artists such as Raphael or Michelangelo. Born March 4, 1445, Botticelli was the son of a tanner and was originally trained as a goldsmith. It was not until he met Fra Filippo Lippi that Botticelli learned to paint. In 1470, Botticelli was an independent master for his creation of the Fortitude that completed the series of Seven Virtues.…

was due to western culture emerging without influence or knowledge of people of color. When I think of classical figurative (containing a human figure) art images like Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer, and The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli. What doesn’t come to mind is Paolo Veronese’s Judith and Holofernes or one of the plentiful adaptations of a bible story picturing the brown magi arriving at jesus’…

The Renaissance was a period of change in which values shifted throughout Europe, especially within the world of art, evident in the work of the Italian Renaissance painter Botticelli. During the fifteenth century, Florence was filled with artistic, technological, and scientific achievements. Founded on humanist beliefs and the rediscovery of the classical world, Renaissance culture focused on heroic ideals and promoted the study of the liberal arts, largely focusing on man’s intellectual…

scientific movement as well. The first movement in this time period was known as humanism. Humanism was the study of anything that had to do with human nature. This movement went on to develop a new knowledge about the arts. A knowledge that helped create Sandro Botticelli’s Birth of Venus. Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi…

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream (Gogh, 1853) Sandro Botticelli was born in the mid-1440s in Florence, Italy. As a boy, he apprenticed as a goldsmith and then with master painter Filippo Lippi. By his forties, Botticelli was himself a master and contributed to the decoration the Sistine Chapeland he Sandro Botticelli was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance-era. That work is Birth of Venus. The painting was Venus and Mars and it’s completed around 1485 and the…

Humanism Haftamu INTRODUCTION: In the beginning of 14 centuries, Petrarch who's an Italian man developed a new idea called humanism. Humanism is defined as the way of thinking that has an interest in nature and the human society. Humanism was not only a respect for the individual or the human body but It’s also the cultural and intellectual movement of the Renaissance, based on the study of classical period. Humanism is a system of education that has created an interest in the study of Greek…

appears that baby Jesus is intrigued and eager to flip through the pages of the book placed in front of him. The theme of the Christ Child fingering or reading from a book was extremely popular in Florence, one of the most famous examples being Botticelli 's Madonna della Magnificat (“Madonna and Child”). The emotion of both Mary and Jesus appear content. I found the detail in both of the subjects hair as well as the halos fascinating. He gives a beautiful light blonde tint to infant Jesus’s…