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Jan 3, 1445
The birth of Botticelli
Botticelli was born in Florence around 1445 where he would live out the rest of his life. -
1455
'Little Barrel'
His father allowed his,as he grew older, to become an apprentice to a goldsmith.During his apprenticeship, the golsmith he worked with gave him the name Botticelli, meaning ''little barrel''. -
1460
Botticelli's workshop
After a time,Sandro convinced his father that he wanted to study painting and was chosen to be apprentice to the well-known painter Fra Filippo Lippi.By the time he was 15 years old, we was able to open his own workshop dedicated to his own work. -
1477
Botticelli's greatest works
Among his greatest works are the Primavera, Pallas and the Centaur, Venus and Mars,and the Birth of Venus, all painted between 1477-1490. -
1480
The Birth of Venus
The Birth of Venus is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, probably made in the mid 1480s. It depicts the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth, when she had emerged from the sea fully-grown . The painting is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.It has long been suggested that Botticelli was commissioned to paint the work by the Medici family of Florence. -
1481
Invited to Rome
In 1481, Botticelli was invited to Rome to take part in the painting of Sistine Chapel.Botticelli's style evolved into one that was very distinct.He included Neo-Platonism in his work, this meant that he would bring together in one painting ideas that belong to both Christianity and pagan ideas. He also liked tackling the roles male and females played in society. -
1481
Botticelli in the Sistine Chapel
In 1481 Botticelli was summoned to Rome. He and several other artists had been selected by Pope Sixtus IV to decorate the walls of the Sistine Chapel. Botticelli's contribution was three paintings, "Events of the life of Moses", "The Temptation of Christ", and "The Punishment of Korah". -
1495
The Last Communion of Saint Jerome
The Last Communion of Saint Jerome was, finished around 1494–1495. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City.
The small picture is inspired by one of the three apocryphal letters of Saint Eusebius, according to which, before dying, Saint Jerome received the Last Communion from Eusebius himself. -
1501
The Mystical Nativity
The Mystical Nativity is a painting dated 1500–1501 now in the National Gallery in London.
The Greek inscription at the top translates as: 'This picture, at the end of the year 1500, in the troubles of Italy, I, Alessandro, in the half-time after the time, painted, according to the eleventh [chapter] of Saint John, in the second woe of the Apocalypse, during the release of the devil for three and a half years; then he shall be bound in the twelfth and we shall see as in this picture'. -
May 17, 1510
Death of Botticelli
Although it is described that Botticelli was impoverished and disabled in his last years, other evidence suggests that he and his family remained fairly prosperous.He died at the age of 65 in 17 May of 1501.
