Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi known as Sandro Botticelli, (1445-1510, was born in Florence, Italy.

Botticelli was an Italian Painter of the early renaissance. He belonged to the Florentine School, under the patronage of Lorenzo de Medici. His posthumous reputation suffered until the 19th century . Since then, his work has been seen to represent the linear grace of the Early Renaissance paintings. Besides painting a small number of mythological subjects, Such as Primavera and The Birth of Venus, he painted a wide range of religious subjects and also some portraits. He is specially known for his Madonna and Childs, many in the round tondo shape. The 1480s was his most successful period, and by 1490s his style became more personal to some extent mannered, and while a new generation of painters were were creating the High Renaissance style, he returned in some ways to the Gothic Style. He has been described as an outsider, who had a limited interest in many of the developments most associated with the Quattrocento paintings such as realistic depiction of human anatomy, perspective, landscape and the use of direct borrowings from classical art. His training enabled him to represent all these aspects without adopt or contribution to their development . Botticelli was apprenticed to Fra Filippo Lippi, and it is from him that he learnt a more intimate and detailed manner. His work was characterised by the conception of the figure as if seen in low relief, drawn with clear contours, and minimising strong contrast of light and shadow, which indicated fully modelled forms. Lippi ‘s synthetic of the new control of three dimensional forms, tender expressiveness in face and gesture , and decorative details, inherited from the late gothic style, were the strong influences on Botticelli. A different influence was the sculptural monumentality of the Pollaiuolo Brothers.