Sandro Botticelli, Representative of the Golden Age of the Early Italian Renaissance
Sandro Botticelli, (1445-1510) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance. 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 […]