Botticelli

[ bot-i-chel-ee; Italian bawt-tee-chel-lee ]

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noun

San·dro [san, -droh, sahn, -, sahn, -d, r, aw], Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi, 1444?–1510, Italian painter.

Botticelli

/ bottiˈtʃɛlli /

BotticelliSandro14441510MItalianFlorentineARTS AND CRAFTS: painterARTS AND CRAFTS: illustratorARTS AND CRAFTS: engraver Sandro (ˈsandro), original name Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi . 1444–1510, Italian (Florentine) painter, illustrator, and engraver, noted for the graceful outlines and delicate details of his mythological and religious paintings

His subjects, frequently nude, have the translucent skin and lushly modeled bodies of Botticelli or Raphael.

For those with a predilection for immaculately fine and delicate paintings by Botticelli, his Madonna of the Book will satisfy.

Those are statistics that Botticelli, one of the five featured panelists on Tuesday, has likely memorized.

Sarah Hajney is an adorable little version of a Botticelli Venus.

Yet Langdon seems surprised that a painting should not have “originated … in the mind of Botticelli himself.”

Dark, grim, and terrifying … Botticelli had crafted his Map of Hell with a depressing palate of reds, sepias, and browns.

Other pictures by this artist remind one of the works of Botticelli.

It reminded him so much of the mouth and eyes of one who sings beside a Botticelli Madonna, so spiritual.

Botticelli had already, earlier in life, got into religious trouble by his reforming tendencies.

It is dated 1491, and should be compared with Botticelli's rendering of the same theme.

The two pictures ascribed to Angelico and Botticelli are not authentic.

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