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Illustration to the Divine Comedy
30" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Price: $247.99
Zephyr and Chloris, detail from The Birth of Venus, c.1485
20" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $219.99
Madonna of the Magnificat (detail)
28" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Price: $239.99
The Agony in the Garden, c.1500
19" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $212.99
Venus, detail from The Birth of Venus, c.1485
20" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $215.99
St. Augustine in his Cell, c.1480
20" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $217.99
Detail of Venus and the Graces offering gifts to a young girl, 1486
18" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $207.99
The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti: Nastagio Arranges a Feast at which the Ghosts Reappear, 1483-87
28" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Price: $189.99
Kronung Mariae
18" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $231.99
Madonna and Child, 1467
20" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $251.99
Virgin and Child with an Angel, 1475-85
19" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $234.99
St. Jerome, 1490s
16" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $220.99
Scenes from the Life of Moses
26" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Price: $206.99
Saint Dominic, 1490s
16" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $215.99
The Birth of Venus
26" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Price: $181.99
Venus and Mars, c.1485
28" x 12" Fine Art Print
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Price: $172.99
Adoration of the Magi, c.1470
26" x 9" Fine Art Print
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Price: $136.99
Mystic Nativity, 1500
18" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $240.99
The Story of Virginia, c.1500
25" x 12" Fine Art Print
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Price: $160.99
Primavera, detail of Venus, c.1478
21" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $252.99
Mystic Nativity, 1500 (detail 2)
21" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $223.99
The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti: The Disembowelment of the Woman Pursued, 1483-87
27" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Price: $185.99
The Birth of Venus
38" x 24" Fine Art Print
Price: $300.99
Figure of Minerva (detail)
22" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $259.99
Venus and the Graces Offering Gifts to a Young Girl
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Price: $232.99
Return of Judith
21" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $254.99
Birth of Venus, Venus
19" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $232.99
Madonna with Child Embracing the Young St John
19" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $234.99
Saint Augustine in his Cell
19" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $236.99
Giuliano De' Medici, C 1478-80
19" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $233.99
The Temptation of Christ, 1481-1482
26" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Price: $206.99
Primavera
25" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Price: $203.99
Lamentation of Christ. c.1490
29" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Price: $212.99
Madonna of the Book, 1480
19" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $221.99
La Primavera (Spring) Detail of Three Graces
22" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $247.99
The Birth of Venus (Head of Venus), 1486
26" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Price: $226.99
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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.