Sandro Botticelli

in florence

father got him to worked under lippi and learn about art and painting ttaught him panle painting, fresco, control of liner perspective, composition, costume gracefulness, linear sence of form, plae hues,

L went to Spoleto. B worked to improve soft frail figural style he learnt. he studied the sculptural style of the top flourentine painters, antonio pollaiuolo and andrea del verrocchio. this helped his drawing and painting of figures and made things more natural and ideal beauty then what his teacher taught him.

independent, own workshop, lived with his family never married

the return of judith, discovery of the body of holofernes, fortitude ( painted for the hall of the tribunale dell'are della mercanzia) start to see the mood of the figures by the facial expressions and action/pose

narrow vertical panels, fresco on panel tondi

small oblong panels, fresco on panel tondi

tentiveness gone he was a master. composion, figure setting and drawing, rendering narritive texts

in the church of ognissanti
early mastery of fresco

3 of B best religious frescoes were part of decor of the chapel undertaken by a team of Florentine and Umbrian artists in rome theological theam chosen to illustrate PAPAL SUPREMACY over the church. B art is remarkable for fusion of sequences of symbolic episodes