Francesco Botticini (real name Francesco di Giovanni, 1446 - 1498)

• Was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.
• He was born in Florence, where remained active until his death in 1498.
• By 22 July 1459 was a salaried assistant in the workshop of Neri di Bicci.
• He eventually came into contact with Andrea del Verrocchio, in whose workshop he would have met Leonardo da Vinci, Lorenzo di Credi, Domenico Ghirlandaio, and Pietro Perugino.
• Botticini opened his own workshop by 1469, as reported in an arbitration document from that year.
• His earliest dated work is an altarpiece of the Madonna and Child with Saints Sebastian, Pancras, Sebastian and Peter (1471) at the Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris.
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