2nd+Period+-+Botticelli

=2nd Period - Botticelli= By:Sadie,L.

Date of birth:[1444-1510]

Location of birth:in florence

Parents’ names:son of tanner

Family background:elder brother or a goldsmith whom sandro was first apprentice to.He was a violist a professor and a artist and a pianoist.Botticelli is the on of a tanner.His brother's name was Giovanni Pawnbraker.

Date of death:May,7,1510

Location of death/grave:unknown

Education:There was a brief stint in Berlin in 1908-1909 he was teaching at a private school and spent he year 1903-1920. In Italy and was know as the first as a perfomer then a professor composition then the santa cecilia academy in rome.

Career:Boticelli was a famous Italian renaissence painter.He worked and lived in florence.The painting he drew were clear,distinctive,delicate color,lavish and poetic feeling.One of his most famous mythological painting the birth of venus.He worked for a goldsmith.Also worked for a line by Andrea Del Verrocchio.He was also a violist in a orchestra of the st. petersburg opera

Legacy:Pictures paintings like "The Birth Of Venus"in[1477-78].It was found in the 19th century.He mostly drew la primeurera with cupid, venus, three grases,florach,chdarisand zephyr.He painted a picture called the "find touch".It' the touch of a bond of humans and the gods and goddess

Additional/Interesting information:His real name was Sandro. In[1470 he got a workshop.He was deep i his art he wounld work day and night till he finish and it was perfect.He replaced "Lippis International gothe.Alessa ndro Rilipepi is his very first name then it was sandro then it stuck as sandro Botticelli.

Sources Cited (Botticelli – 2nd Period)

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