Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli ("little barrels"; March 1, 1444/45 - May 17, 1510) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (Quattrocento). Less than a hundred years later, this movement, under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, was characterized by Giorgio Vasari as a "golden age", a thought, suitably enough, he expressed at the head of his "Vita" of Botticelli. Wikipedia
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...6 Read more Botticelli, Sandro Botticelli, Sandro born as Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (Florence, 1444/45 - Florence, 1510) Italian, Florentine He was one of the greatest ... www.aiwaz.net/gallery/botticelli-sandro/gc122
Botticelli's name is derived from his elder brother Giovanni, a pawnbroker who was called Il Botticello ("The Little Barrel"). www.all-art.org/early_renaissance/botticelli1.html
