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Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” is a 15th-century tempera painting showcasing the Renaissance interpretation of classical mythology. It depicts the goddess Venus rising from the sea, an iconic image representing beauty and love. The artwork, now in the Uffizi Gallery, was created by one of the era...
La Primavera is a large mythological painting made by Sandro Botticelli, probably in the late 1470s or early 1480s, and now displayed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Its orange grove contains Venus, Cupid, Mercury, the Three Graces, Zephyrus, Chloris, and Flora, although the precise meaning of th...
Primavera is a large tempera painting on panel made by Sandro Botticelli during the Italian Renaissance, probably in the late 1470s or early 1480s. Set in an orange grove, it brings together Venus, Cupid, the Three Graces, Mercury, Zephyrus, Chloris, and Flora in a complex mythological scene often a...
Sandro Botticelli's Adoration of the Magi, painted around 1475, is a tempera panel now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. The biblical worship of the Christ Child is populated by contemporary Florentine figures, including portrait likenesses traditionally identified with Cosimo de' Medici and other...
Sandro Botticelli completed The Mystical Nativity in 1500, using tempera on canvas to combine the birth of Christ with an apocalyptic vision of reconciliation. Angels dance above the stable while other angels embrace human figures below, and demons retreat into fissures in the ground. A Greek inscri...
Madonna of the Magnificat is a circular tempera painting, or tondo, made by Sandro Botticelli around 1481. It depicts the Virgin Mary writing the Magnificat while holding the infant Christ, surrounded by angels who crown her and support the book. The work combines Christian symbolism with the linear...
The Temptations of Christ is a fresco by Sandro Botticelli on the south wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, painted around 1481 to 1482. It presents several episodes from Christ's temptation by the Devil within a single continuous landscape, while a prominent foreground scene depicts a purif...
Sandro Botticelli's Coronation of the Virgin, also known as the San Marco Altarpiece, was painted around 1488-1490 for the chapel of the goldsmiths' guild in the church of San Marco in Florence. Now in the Uffizi Gallery, the tempera panel divides its composition between a celestial coronation surro...
The Mystical Nativity is a tempera painting on canvas completed by Sandro Botticelli in 1500 and now held by the National Gallery in London. It presents the Nativity together with angels, embracing figures, and defeated demons, combining the biblical birth of Christ with an apocalyptic vision. A Gre...
The San Barnaba Altarpiece is a large tempera panel painted by Sandro Botticelli around 1487 to 1488 for the church of San Barnaba in Florence and now held by the Uffizi Gallery. It presents the Virgin and Child enthroned beneath an architectural canopy, accompanied by six saints in a sacra conversa...
Sandro Botticelli's Bardi Altarpiece, painted around 1485, is now in the Gemaldegalerie in Berlin. It shows the enthroned Virgin and Child between Saint John the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist beneath an elaborate architectural and vegetal canopy. Commissioned by the Florentine banker Giovann...
A depiction of the biblical Magi presenting gifts to the infant Christ, one of the most frequently painted narrative subjects of the Italian and Northern Renaissance.
