Question

Why was Botticelli important to the Renaissance?​

Answer 1

Sandro Botticelli was born in the mid-1440s in Florence, Italy. As a boy, he apprenticed as a goldsmith and then with master painter Filippo Lippi. By his forties, Botticelli was himself a master and contributed to the decoration the Sistine Chapel. His best known work is The Birth of Venus

Answer 2

Loved by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and an important influence on art nouveau, he was part of a late 15th-century movement which admired the ornamental, linear qualities of Gothic painting. Botticelli is best known for his mythological allegories, Primavera (c.1478), The Birth of Venus and Pallas and the Centaur.