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The Annunciation, detail of the Archangel Gabriel, from San Martino della Scala, 1481
24" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $265.99
Mystic Nativity, 1500
22" x 30" Fine Art Print
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Price: $285.99
Venus, detail from The Birth of Venus, c.1485
23" x 30" Fine Art Print
+ Multiple Sizes
Price: $270.99
The Birth of Venus (detail)
19" x 19" Fine Art Print
Price: $178.99
The Birth of Venus
30" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $262.99
Venus and Mars, c.1485
30" x 17" Fine Art Print
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Price: $202.99
Mystic Nativity, 1500 (detail 1)
27" x 24" Fine Art Print
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Price: $260.99
Portrait of a Young Man, c.1480-85
24" x 30" Fine Art Print
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Price: $272.99
The Agony in the Garden, c.1500
23" x 30" Fine Art Print
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Price: $266.99
The Story of Virginia, c.1500
30" x 19" Fine Art Print
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Price: $211.99
Ecce Homo, or The Redeemer, c.1474
22" x 30" Fine Art Print
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Price: $264.99
The Virgin and Child (Madonna of the Guidi da Faenza) c.1465-70
22" x 30" Fine Art Print
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Price: $264.99
The Virgin and Child, c.1500
24" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $266.99
Detail of Venus and the Graces offering gifts to a young girl, 1486
22" x 30" Fine Art Print
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Price: $264.99
The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti: The Disembowelment of the Woman Pursued, 1483-87
30" x 21" Fine Art Print
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Price: $258.99
The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti: Nastagio Arranges a Feast at which the Ghosts Reappear, 1483-87
30" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Price: $255.99
Spring, Circa 1482
18" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $186.99
Figure of Minerva (detail)
18" x 21" Fine Art Print
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Price: $179.99
Portrait of a Young Woman, 1485
18" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $188.99
Madonna and Child, 1467
18" x 21" Fine Art Print
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Price: $181.99
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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.