What was sandro botticelli personal life like

 

 

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Painting by Sandro Botticelli

Alessandro Filipepi, known as Sandro Botticelli, (1444-1510) began his career during the Italian Renaissance period.

Botticelli was born in Florence around 1445 where he would live out the rest of his life.

Sandro botticelli early life

When was sandro botticelli born

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Sandro botticelli death

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As the youngest of five children, Botticelli’s father, a tanner, allowed him to become an apprentice to a goldsmith. During this apprenticeship, the goldsmith he worked with gave him the name Botticelli, meaning ‘little barrel.’

After a time, Sandro convinced his father that he wanted to study painting and was chosen to be apprentice to the well known painter Fra Filippo Lippi.

Lippi was well known for how he used color on church altarpieces and helped Sandro discover a similar style for his own work. Sandro Botticelli developed tender expressions in his subjects face and in their gestures. He also used decorative details that were influenced