Florence ca.1445-1510 Italian painter and draughtsman. In his lifetime he was one of the most esteemed painters in Italy, enjoying the patronage of the leading families of Florence, in particular the Medici and their banking clients. He was summoned to take part in the decoration of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, was highly commended by diplomatic agents to Ludovico Sforza in Milan and Isabella d'Este in Mantua and also received enthusiastic praise from the famous mathematician Luca Pacioli and the humanist poet Ugolino Verino. By the time of his death, however, Botticelli's reputation was already waning. He was overshadowed first by the advent of what Vasari called the maniera devota, a new style by Perugino, Francesco Francia and the young Raphael, whose new and humanly affective sentiment, infused atmospheric effects and sweet colourism took Italy by storm;   Related Paintings of Alessandro Botticelli :. | Seascape, boats, ships and warships. 116 | Genfersee mit Mont-Blanc im Morgenlicht | Triple Portrait of Richelieu kjj | Portrait of a girl ( Victoria ) | Holy Trinity |
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Konrad Alexander Muller-Kurzwelly
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Peter Adolf Persson
painted View over the Landscape of Skane in 1889