Sandro Botticelli

Italian painter (1445–1510)

  • Fame68.8
  • Momentum0.0
  • Artists rank#56
Source-basedFalling
  • Fame68.8
  • Momentum0.0
  • Artists rank#56
  • Wikipedia58.4K
Lived 1445–1510, aged 65Italy
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  • Era
    1445–1510
    Aged 65
Summary
Updated 2026-06-21

His Venus rising from the sea became one of art history's most reproduced images, yet Botticelli spent three centuries in obscurity after his death — forgotten until Victorian England decided his linear, gold-lit figures were worth looking at again.

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Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi was born around 1445 and spent his entire life in the same Florence neighbourhood, leaving only for a Pisa commission in 1474 and months painting the Sistine Chapel in 1481–82. The 1470s established him as an independent master; the 1480s brought his decade of triumph, when he completed the large mythological panels and the Madonnas that filled aristocratic homes. He painted religious subjects by the dozen — tondo after tondo of Madonna and Child — alongside the pagan allegories now in the Uffizi: Primavera, The Birth of Venus. By the 1490s his style tur…

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68.8
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Historical26.1
Now attention16.9
Source confidence60.0
Completeness70.0
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#56
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