Botticelli

American  

[bot-i-chel-ee, bawt-tee-chel-lee] / ˌbɒt ɪˈtʃɛl i, ˌbɔt tiˈtʃɛl li /

noun

1. Sandro Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi, 1444?–1510, Italian painter.

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Botticelli British  

/ bottiˈtʃɛlli /

noun

1. 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

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Other Word Forms

• Botticellian adjective

Example Sentences

They glued themselves to an art-history survey course’s worth of priceless works, from Picasso to Raphael to Botticelli.

From Los Angeles Times

There’s bound to be a lot of looks inspired by Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” as well.

From Los Angeles Times

Legal action has followed to protect masterpieces at other museums, not without debate, including Leonardo’s “Vitruvian Man,” Donatello’s David and Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus.”

From Seattle Times

Inside that circle are the homes of Raphael, Michelangelo, Botticelli—and the list of luminaries goes on.

From Literature

But this is not that kind of show — and Botticelli, as we come to see, is not that kind of artist, even if the auction houses would like us to think so.

From New York Times