Sandro Botticelli: 9 works

'For this reason, and because of the condition of the Cincinnati picture, the attribution to Botticelli occasionally has been doubted. Recent studies, however, reveal underdrawing by a hand like Botticelli's, and undamaged areas of the painting compare favorably with Botticelli's work from the late 1460s and early 1470s.'

'Botticelli mastered this demanding format with a calculated pictorial order that takes up the circular border: the Madonna is enthroned at the centre of a multiple encircling movement.'

'Dating from about 1480, the painting shows all the elements of the Botticelli's mature poetic: a delicate, elegant linearity, a style which is still far from the intense pathos of his late work.'

'Sandro Botticelli, a Florentine, painted several versions of the theme of the Adoration of the Magi.'

'Giorgio Vasari saw the work there in the mid-sixteenth century -- along with Botticelli's other well-known Primavera -- and described it precisely as "showing the Birth of Venus." The old idea that the two Botticelli masterpieces were created for the same occasion, in spite of their substantial technical and stylistic diversity, is no longer accepted.'

'This altar panel, one of Botticelli's most carefully painted and best-preserved paintings, was commissioned by the Florentine merchant Giovanni d'Agnolo de'Bardi for his burial chapel in S. Spirito.'

'Botticelli carefully developed the perspective of the architecture and landscape and included painted frames resembling windows around each scene.'

'At end of the 15th century, i.e. almost 200 years after Dante wrote the Divine Comedy, Sandro Botticelli, one of the most famous and celebrated artists of the Renaissance in Florence, undertook the ambitious mission to entirely visualize this poetic vision of the universe.'

'The work is a good example of the stylistic change of Botticelli's painting in the early 1490s, when he was affected by the preaching of Gerolamo Savonarola and the turmoil that followed the death of Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence and a great patron of the artist.'