Botticelli
noun
Sandro Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi, 1444?–1510, Italian painter.
Botticellian
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a word derived from
Botticelli.
Example Sentences
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A large, bust-length portrait from that year, of a green-skinned woman of Botticellian perfection and Picabian spookiness, is unlike anything that preceded it.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2014
Four Botticellian wood sprites, who could also sing divinely, led the promenade performance from tree to tree.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2010
"This is the best incentive I have to stay slim," cried a Botticellian Berkeley coed as she raced into the combing breakers.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Repentance slowly follows, in black mourning habit; while naked Truth–the Botticellian Venus in another form–raises her hand in appeal to the heavens.
From The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner
He is making the accusation and leading Calumny, a scornful Botticellian beauty, who holds in one hand a torch and with the other drags her victim by the hair to the judge's feet.
From The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner
