By dahamsa on Skatehive
Sandro Botticelli or Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, one of the greatest and most popular Italian masters of the late 15th century, was born in 1445, in Florence, Italy. He worked as an apprentice to Filippo Lippi and the result of Lippi’s influence on Botticelli is evident in the graceful rounded style and the projection of a sense of spirituality in his work. Botticelli worked with Pollaiuolo brothers, absorbing their naturalism as well as their techniques of foreshortening and perspective. He reacted against the realism introduced by Masachio by reviving elements of Gothic art, which can be called a delicacy of sentiment, expressed in an ornamental style. Botticelli imbued the elements with freshness and beauty. He worked in tempera, usually on panel, and painted portraits as well as religious, political and mythological works, full of allegory as well as with symbolism. In 1481 he was called to Rome to paint part of the famous Sistine Chapel and after about three years he returned