Botticelli (1444/45–1510)

• Was an Italian painter.
• Botticelli was born in the city of Florence in a house on the street still called Borgo Ognissanti.
• He lived in the same area all his life and was buried in his neighbourhood church called Ognissanti ("All Saints").
• Sandro was one of several children to the tanner Mariano di Vanni d'Amedeo Filipepi and his wife Smeralda Filipepi.
• The nickname Botticelli, meaning "little barrel", derives from the nickname of Sandro's brother, Giovanni, who was called Botticello apparently because of his round stature.
• A document of 1470 refers to Sandro as "Sandro Mariano Botticelli", meaning that he had fully adopted the name.
• The displayed painting is a crop from Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venuse, c. 1485.
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