Sandro Botticelli Biography (1445–1510) - Life of Florentine Artist

On May 17, 1510, Sandro Botticelli, Florentine Renaissance painter (Birth of Venus), died at about the age of 65.

"One Renaissance artist and Florentine Painter never failed to impress the Medici Family. One of his noted artworks is none other than the famed “The Birth of Venus”, and has been a product of the Medici clan. He was none other than Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510).

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli, was born at around circa 1445. He was an Italian Painter during the early period of the Renaissance at the Florentine School then supervised by Lorenzo de Medici. As a Florentine painter of the high and regal Medici Family, he was noted for having made paintings such as the “The Birth of Venus”, “Primavera”, and the “Adoration of The Magi”. He is known to be one of the earliest artists of the Renaissance."