Botticelli died #onthisday in 1510. Here’s one of his most elaborate and beautiful drawings http://ow.ly/MZnq4
Sandro Botticelli's 'Four Scenes from the Early Life of Saint Zenobius' comes from a series illustrating the life of the 5th-century bishop Zenobius, one of Florence's patron saints. You can see this panel in our Sainsbury Wing: http://bit.ly/1CrG2iX
Mars, God of War, was one of the lovers of Venus, Goddess of Love. Here Mars is asleep and unarmed, while Venus is awake and alert. The meaning of this picture, by Sandro Botticelli, is that love conquers war, or love conquers all: http://bit.ly/1Tpbyes
This week, enter to win a framed print of Sandro Botticelli's 'Venus and Mars': http://bit.ly/1DlGKD6
Sign up to our e-news to be in with a chance of winning this Christmas gift from us. Botticelli's stunning painting of the god of war and the goddess of love has been printed on matt paper, and framed in a distressed antique gold frame.
We will be open until 9pm tonight. Join us for a festive treat and enjoy music, mulled wine, and our collection after dark: http://bit.ly/1CYS2x7
Make sure you look in on Sandro Botticelli's 'Mystic Nativity' in Room 57, a favourite nativity scene in our collection featuring celebrating angels.
Make sure you look in on Sandro Botticelli's 'Mystic Nativity' in Room 57, a favourite nativity scene in our collection featuring celebrating angels.
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli or Il Botticello ("The Little Barrel"; 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.
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