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Fortress
16" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $168.99
St. Thomas Aquinas
19" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $176.99
Lamentation of Christ. c.1490
19" x 15" Fine Art Print
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Price: $142.99
La Primavera (Spring) Detail of Three Graces
19" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $176.99
Detail: La Primavera
15" x 16" Fine Art Print
Price: $143.99
Portrait of a Young Man, c.1480-85
16" x 19" Fine Art Print
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Price: $146.99
Ecce Homo, or The Redeemer, c.1474
15" x 19" Fine Art Print
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Price: $142.99
Primavera, detail of Venus, c.1478
16" x 19" Fine Art Print
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Price: $156.99
The Virgin and Child, c.1500
16" x 19" Fine Art Print
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Price: $147.99
The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti: Nastagio's Vision of the Ghostly Pursuit in the Forest, 1483 or 1487
22" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Price: $156.99
Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci
18" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $172.99
Portrait of a Young Woman, 1485
18" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $174.99
Portrait of Youth
16" x 19" Fine Art Print
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Price: $151.99
The Birth of Venus
21" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Price: $152.99
Detail: La Primavera
20" x 21" Fine Art Print
Price: $178.99
The Agony in the Garden, c.1500
15" x 19" Fine Art Print
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Price: $143.99
Hell, from 'The Divine Comedy' by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
18" x 15" Fine Art Print
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Price: $134.99
The Virgin and Child (Madonna of the Guidi da Faenza) c.1465-70
15" x 19" Fine Art Print
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Price: $143.99
Mystic Nativity, 1500 (detail 2)
16" x 19" Fine Art Print
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Price: $147.99
The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti: Nastagio Arranges a Feast at which the Ghosts Reappear, 1483-87
22" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Price: $156.99
The Birth of Venus
19" x 15" Fine Art Print
Price: $149.99
Spring, Circa 1482
18" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $172.99
Portrait of a Man with a Medal of Cosimo the Elder
18" x 21" Fine Art Print
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Price: $167.99
St. Jerome, 1490s
17" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $170.99
Saint Dominic, 1490s
16" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $167.99
Mystic Nativity, 1500 (detail 1)
23" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Price: $183.99
Zephyr and Chloris, detail from The Birth of Venus, c.1485
16" x 19" Fine Art Print
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Price: $146.99
Mystic Nativity, 1500
15" x 19" Fine Art Print
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Price: $152.99
Virgin of the Pomegranate
16" x 19" Fine Art Print
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Price: $144.99
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Sandro Botticelli, (1 March 1445 – 17 May 1510) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance. Botticelli's signature motifs-highly detailed ornamentation, a rich color palette, and attenuated forms-make his paintings both immediately recognizable and wholly original.
Born in Florence, Botticelli was exposed to the rich art tradition offered by that city. Originally trained as a goldsmith, Botticelli also apprenticed under the painter Fra Fillipo Lippi, who instilled an interest in Gothic forms, new perspectival devices, and a greater sense of corporality. As a result, the artist developed a unique style that acknowledged the Florentine art tradition and that also strove to be innovative.
After a series of religious and devotional commissions, Botticelli was asked to paint a series of mythologically themed pictures. His famous Birth of Venus was a product of this commission. The Birth of Venus employs a light color scheme and references to Springtime, invoked by Venus herself and the goddess Hora (both symbols of spring), to create a beautiful, enigmatic scene that was intended for an Italian pastoral retreat.
Botticelli's combination of a goldsmith's eye for detail and a mathematician's sense of geometry created an oeuvre that was both highly decorative and compositionally innovative. Unfortunately, when Fra Girolamo Savonarola began to preach hellfire and damnation, the susceptible Botticelli became one of his adherents, left painting as a worldly vanity, burned much of his own early work, fell into poverty as a result and would have starved, but for the tender support of his former patrons.