Sandro Botticelli
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Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro
Botticelli or Il Botticello ("little barrels"; March
1, 1445 – May 17,
1510)[1] 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. His posthumous reputation suffered until
the late 19th century; since then his work has been seen to represent the
linear grace of Early Renaissance painting, and The Birth of Venus and Primavera rank now among the most
familiar masterpieces of Florentine
art. 
Madonna and Child with an Angel
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