Botticelli

Alessandro Filipepi
 * Sandro Botticelli **
 * Full Name of Artist (birth name)- **

**Born-** Approx 1444 in Florence, Italy

May 17, 1510
 * Died- **

Botticelli was primarily a painter but he also was a drawer and an illustrator. He often used paintbrushes like a pen or pencil to outline.
 * Art Medium/Materials- **

Botticelli most often painted religious figures like Jesus and His mother or Roman & Greek Gods/Goddesses.
 * Subject/genre- **

Botticelli was an Early Renaissance painter.
 * Art movement/period of artist- **


 * Title of artwork- ** La Primavera (Springtime)
 * Year it was created- ** 1477-1478
 * Medium- ** Tempera painting on wood panel


 * Interesting Facts: **
 * Botticelli's work was forgotten for hundreds of years. It was in the late 1800's that his work became popular again.
 * Botticelli's line work (outlining mentioned above) is said to have given his paintings a feeling of movement.
 * At age 15, Botticelli became an apprentice to one of Florence's greatest master painters, Filippo Lippi.
 * Botticelli sometimes included his patrons (people paying him to make a painting) as a subject in the artwork.
 * Botticelli was the victim of intellectual property theft. Other painters during his time copied his paintings and attempted to pass them off as Botticelli. This makes it hard today to tell which of Botticelli's paintings are authentic.

__** Works Cited: **__
 * Minor, Vernon Hyde. "Botticelli, Sandro." //World Book Student.// World Book, 2011. Web. 16 Feb. 2011.
 * Venezia, Mike. //Botticelli//. Chicago: Children's Press, 1993.

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