History of Sandro Botticelli, a Florentine artist during the Renaissance

Botticelli, the Italian artist, was one of the main artists in Florence during Renaissance. Botticelli was born in Florence, Italy, in 1445, and he was the son of a tanner who is the one to convert animal skins into leather. There is not much known about his early life or childhood. During the 1470sand 1480s,he became very successful, then he was forgotten when he died in 1510. Botticelli was quite famous in the 19^thcentury, particularly in England. He came after several generations of Donatello, Masaccio, and their acquaintances, who gave direction to Florentine art, and right before the time, it took a turn in Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and others work. Botticelli worked in a well-established, almost ‘traditional’ way at a time right before such a style of work became obsolete and ran out of fashion. 

During the 1460s, Botticelli started to get trained from Fra Filippo Lippi, who was one of the famous artists of the Renaissance period. His very first work followed the latest version of the ‘popular style’ in Florence which was used by painters such as ‘Andrea del Verrocchio’. Such a style had a vast significance on the figure of humans rather than concentrating on space. In the beginning, Sandro’s famous works included ‘Fortitude’ in 1470 and ‘St. Sebastian’ in1474. In a number of these paintings he altered the physical action and muscular energy appearance found in the work of Verrocchio. In Botticelli's work, the people are portrayed as thoughtful and melancholy.

Such qualities are very prominent in Sandro’s most well-known works, ‘Spring’ and the ‘Birth of Venus’. Both these works are surely made with scholarly assistance, but if a story was invented for the time that could explain these paintings, it was not made a record of. It is possible to bring into consideration the two figures of ‘Venus’ as a different pair since Venus had an essential part in both these paintings.

Conclusion

Although his art work is praiseworthy, there are some criticisms to his work such as the subject of Botticelli’s painting, ‘Venus and Mars’, which was based on Resposianus’s poem or on Polizian’s ‘Giostra’. Observers can assume that the painting was the result of commission to Botticelli himself or some other person in which the ‘subject’ and ‘shape’ to which the artist had to acclimatize his composition were specified. So he was limited in his work by other people’s wishes.

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