Botticellian
- 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
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 Gardner, Edmund G.
The Centaur himself is splendidly conceived and realised–a characteristic Botticellian modification of those terrible beings who hunt the damned souls of tyrants and robbers through the river of blood in Dante's Hell.
From The Story of Florence by Gardner, Edmund G.
