La Calunnia (1496-1497)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) La Calunnia (Calumny of Apelles) c.1496–1497 Tempera on panel, 62 x 91 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze

Ultima comunione di san Gerolamo (1490s)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ultima comunione di san Gerolamo (Last Communion of Saint Jerome) early 1490s Tempera and gold on wood,34.3 x 25.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The great fourth-century scholar and translator of the Bible into Latin is shown in…

Madonna con Bambino, san Giovannino e due angeli (1468)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna con Bambino, san Giovannino e due angeli (Virgin and Child with Two Angels and the Young St. John the Baptist) 1468 Tempera on panel, 85 x 64 cm Galleria dell’Accademia, Firenze Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (1445-1510),…

Crocifissione mistica (c.1500)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Crocifissione mistica (Mystic Crucifixion) c.1500 Tempera and oil on canvas (transferred from panel), 72.4 x 51.4 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA In the 1490s, Florence came under the sway of the magnetic Dominican preacher Girolamo Savonarola. The century had…

Ritratto di Esmeralda Brandini (c.1470-1480)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ritratto di Esmeralda Brandini (Portrait of a Lady known as Smeralda Bandinelli) c.1470–1480 Tempera on panel, 65.7 x 41 cm Victoria & Albert Museum, London Sandro Botticelli (1444/5-1510) was trained in Florence in the studio of Fra Filippo Lippi…

Esmeralda Brandini

Esmeralda Brandini in Art: Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ritratto di Esmeralda Brandini c.1470–1480 Victoria & Albert Museum, London    

Michele Marullo Tarcaniota (c.1497)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Michele Marullo Tarcaniota (Michael Tarchaniota Marullus) c.1497 Tempera on canvas transferred from panel, 49 x 35 cm Private collection Guardans Cambó Collection. See also: • Marullus, Michael Tarchaniota (1453-1500)

Michael Tarchaniota Marullus

(1453–1500) Michael Tarchaniota Marullus in Art: Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Michele Marullo Tarcaniota c.1497 Private collection     See also: • Humanists | Poets | Writers

Madonna dell’Eucarestia (1470-1474)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna dell’Eucarestia (Virgin and Child with an Angel) 1470–1474 Tempera on panel, 85 x 64.5 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston A vast number of paintings of the Virgin and Child were produced in Florence in the late 1400s…