Italian painter
Enjoyed the patronage of the principal families of Florence who held him in high regard.
Botticelli was highly commended by influential diplomats and leading persons, particularly for his involvement in the decoration of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.
In his later life his reputation waned as his style of painting was overshadowed initially by that of emerging painters including Perugino and Francesco Francia then by the High Renaissance style of Michelangelo and Raphael
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Botticelli, Sandro
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Italian painter
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