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Pallade e il Centauro (c.1482)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Pallade e il Centauro (Pallas and the Centaur) c.1482 Tempera on canvas, 207 x 148 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Like Botticelli’s other paintings with a mythological subject, this work too, showing the young woman armed with a battle…

Madonna del Magnificat (c.1483)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna del Magnificat (Madonna of the Magnificat) c.1483 Tempera on panel, diameter 118 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The Virgin Mary, crowned by two angels, is depicted on a throne. Under the guidance of her son, she is writing…

Madonna con un angelo adorante (c.1468)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna con un angelo adorante (Madonna and Child with Adoring Angel) c.1468 Tempera on panel, 88.9 x 68 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Botticelli was one of the most individual and influential painters in Florence at the end of…

Madonna col Bambino e otto angeli (c.1480)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna col Bambino e otto angeli, Raczyński Tondo (Madonna and Child with Eight Angels) c.1480 Tempera on poplar panel, diameter 136.5 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin It is possible that this circular picture used to belong to the Brothers of S.…

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),…

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…

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…

Compianto sul Cristo morto (c.1490-1495)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Compianto sul Cristo morto (Lamentation over the Dead Christ) c.1490–1495 Tempera on poplar panel, 140 x 209.2 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Botticelli created this depiction of a Pieta for meditation on the Passion, surrounded by female mourners and saints…