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BORN ALESSANDRO Di Mariano dei Filipepi, he acquired his nickname Botticelli (‘little barrel’) from his brother Giovanni, who raised him and who was himself thus named. From 1458 to 1467 he worked in the studio of Fra Lippo Lippi before branching out on his own. By 1480 he was working on the frescoes for the Sistine Chapel and his lesser works consist mainly of religious paintings, although it is for his treatment of allegorical and mythological subjects that he is best remembered. Outstanding in this group are his paintings Primavera (1477) and The Birth of Venus (1485), both now in the Uffizi. He also excelled as a portraitist, and provided the illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy, which he executed in pen and ink and silverpoint (1402–5).
Excerpt from Art. The World of Art, from Aboriginal to American Pop, Renaissance Masters to Postmodernism.
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Botticelli
1445-1510