Beautiful paintings by Sandro Botticelli

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

The Renaissance gave the world many incredibly gifted people. Architects, artists and sculptors of this period created unique works of art. Beautiful buildings, which are well preserved, still delight many tourists. Museums of different countries offer everyone to look at the fabulously beautiful paintings painted in those distant times. A wonderful sculpture, drawn to the smallest detail, surprises with its harmonious completeness and expression.

In our time, everyone knows the names of many titans of the Renaissance. Benvenuto Cellini, Leonardo da Vinci, Giotto, Raphael Santi, Michelangelo Buonarotti, Sandro Botticelli and many others have been familiar to us since childhood. However, not all the now famous artists of that era enjoyed well-deserved popularity during their lifetime.

The life story of Sandro Botticelli is very interesting. Today everyone knows that he was the creator of the world-famous masterpieces "Spring" and "The Birth of Venus". But at the beginning of the 16th century, things were quite different. Despite his talent and professionalism, this remarkable artist remained completely unknown. One day,when Queen Isabella of Castile was looking for a master to commission beautiful paintings for her palace, she rejected Botticelli's candidacy, despite various recommendations, because he was not very fashionable at the time. In the 19th century, the era of Romanticism began, and the attention to the work of forgotten masters. It was at this time that interest in Sandro Botticelli arose. Later, the works created by him received worldwide recognition, professional artists and ordinary art lovers began to admire the master. The only pity is that he, like most of the most talented people, received his well-deserved fame several centuries after his death. What was the creative path of this Florentine forgotten for centuries?

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi was born in the city of Florence around 1445 in the family of a leather craftsman. He was a student of the then-famous painter and Carmelite monk Filippo Lippi. The first independent work of S. Botticelli is the fresco "St. Sebastian" for the church of Santa Maria Maggiori. Young Sandro was a wonderful portrait painter. He seemed to feel the inner world of the people he portrayed. Maybe that's why his most beautiful paintings accurately convey the characters, thoughts and feelings of the people depicted. For example, the picture "The Exile", it depicts a crying woman who covers her face with her hands. Masterfully conveyed emotions of human suffering amaze every viewer.

The most famous works of the painterare the works "Birth of Venus" and "Spring". His ideal of female beauty is a sweet face with delicate features and large pensive eyes. The changeable spirit of his time is shown in all his paintings. Beautiful girls, personifying the images of ancient mythology, he conveyed with romantic sadness and gentle charm.

Later works of the master carry asceticism and some confusion, they are sadly beautiful. Paintings by S. Botticelli at that time became even more expressive.

In 1510, at the age of 64, the artist died. He was buried in the cemetery of Onisanti Church near the house where he was born.

In our time, the sublimely beautiful paintings of the talented Sandro Botticelli help to understand the inner world of a Renaissance man and teach young artists to find their own unique path in creativity.