The Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel, sold at Sotheby's for US$92
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Sandro Botticelli
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli or simply Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century, when he was rediscovered by the Pre-Raphaelites who stimulated a reappraisal of his work. Since then, his paintings have been seen to represent the linear grace of late Italian Goth…
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culture · Italian Renaissance painter (1445–1510) · painter · draftsperson · architectural drafter · fresco painter · also Sandro Botticelli, Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni de Filipepi, Sandro Filipepi Botticelli, Alessandro Filipepi, A. Boticello, Alexander Botticelli
Born 1 March 1445 · Died 1 January 1510 · Q5669
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2013· 1 entry
The Rockefeller Madonna, sold at Christie's for US$10
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1975· 1 entry
Of a Medici inventory of 1499, it was assumed that both works were painted specifically for the villa
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1938· 1 entry
Jacques Mesnil discovered a summary of a charge in the Florentine Archives for November 16, 1502, which read simply "Botticelli keeps a boy", an accusation of sodomy (homosexuality)
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1893· 1 entry
The same year as Aby Warburg's seminal dissertation on the mythologies; then, between 1900 and 1920 more books were written on Botticelli than on any other painter
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1857· 1 entry
The Art Treasures Exhibition, where among many other art works it was viewed by more than a million people
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1829· 1 entry
But the National Gallery, London only bought a Madonna (now regarded as by his workshop) in 1855
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1510· 1 entry
Died 1510-01-01.
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1445· 1 entry
Born 1445-03-01.
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