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Botticelli

Botticelli

6 8.1
An Italian painter from the late 1400s famous for myth and religious paintings like The Birth of Venus
  • proper noun
  • /ˌbɒtəˈtʃɛli/
: Botticelli
  • The delicate figures in Botticelli's works reflect the beauty of Renaissance art.
  • Sandro Botticelli
  • Botticelli's Primavera
  • masterpiece by Botticelli

Proust, Monet, Bruegel, even Botticelli and Vermeer, they show us reality.

Examples

  • The definition comes from Lucian of Samosata's essay on calumny, which contains the famous Calumny of Apelles that Botticelli painted in the fifteenth century.

    Academic text (1999)

  • In Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, the mythological beauty is blown ashore on Cyprus.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Under the lively enchantment of the music, Botticelli's grieving Madonna had been transformed into Flora of the Primavera.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Formally, Fra Filippo Lippi's idealized and ethereal red-headed subjects carry into the work of his most successful student, Botticelli.

    Academic text (1998)

  • At two, Aubrey Monroe resembled a Botticelli angel, all rose and gilt, with bright green eyes and dimples denting her cheeks.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • The Uffizi Gallery showcases several masterpieces by Botticelli, including his famous painting 'The Birth of Venus.'

  • In art history classes, students often analyze Botticelli's use of color and form in 'La Primavera.'

Synonyms

Sandro Botticelli
vsBotticelli
1 7.4

Italian Renaissance painter best known for The Birth of Venus and Primavera

is the single-name, more familiar label for the same artist

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Botticelli comes from the Italian word botticello, which means 'little barrel' and was used as a nickname rather than his real name. Thinking of a small barrel can help you remember the painter famous for 'The Birth of Venus'.