1. THE QUATTROCENTO
Sandro Botticelli

2. The Quattrocento
 The quattrocento is the group of
cultural and artistic events of 15th
century in Italy.
 It contents the artistic styles of the
late middle ages and the early
renaissance.
 One of the quattrocento artists is
Sandro Botticelli.

3. The quattrocento
paints
 His
principal characteristics are the
observation of the nature and the
domain of the perspective.

4. The quattrocento
paints
 The technique that is more used is
the mural.
 It makes up on special tables and
sometimes in certain furniture.
 The artists use the tempera paints
until the second half of century,
when apears the oil paint.

5. The quattrocento
paints
 The focus is the human figure.
 The normal human proportions
returned.
 He perfected the three-
dimensionality and established the
foundations of the Renaissance style.
 The artists put the figures in
architectural spaces

6. Introduccion
 Sandro Botticelli (Florence
1445 - Florence, May 17,
1510) was an Italian
Renaissance painter. His
family name was Mariano
Filipepi Allessandro, but it
was t is so called because
he was
the apprentice painter and
craftsman of Botticelli.

7. BIOGRAPHY
 He was born in a
rented house in
Borgo Ognissanti,
Alessandro, the last
of seven siblings,
parents were
already old.

8. BIOGRAPHY
 Hisfather, Mariano,
was tanning leather in
a modest condition.
But it seems that
precisely at this time,
the family goes
through the worst
time as possible seem
to have improved on
previous phases.

9. BIOGRAPHY
 Hisfamily name was
Mariano Filipepi
Allessandro, but it
was t is so
called because he
was
the apprentice paint
er and craftsman of
Botticelli.

10. BIOGRAPHY
 It is known that he
was received by
the Medici and
other prominent
Florentine families
between 1483 and
1500. Botticelli not
signed most of his
paintings.

11. BIOGRAPHY
 He hasn’t been
married, but
many persons
thing that he had
a unrequited love
with Simonetta
Vespucci

12. PAINTS
In the walls of “La capilla Sixtina” there are many
paints(1481-1482):
– PROVES DE MOISÉS
– CÀSTIG DELS REBELS
– PROVES DE CRIST
– PALES DOMANT EL
CENTAURE
– RETRAT D’UN JOVE
– DEESES VENUS I MART
The history of Nastagio degli
Onesti(1483):
- NASTAGIO DEGLI ONESTI I
- NASTAGIO DEGLI ONESTI II
- NASTAGIO DEGLI ONESTI III
- NASTAGIO DEGLI ONESTI IV

13. VERGE AMB EL ADORACIÓ ALS LA VERGE DE LA
NEN I L’ÀNGEL MAGS GALERIA
RETORN DE LA RETRAT DE LA VERGE DEL
JUDIT A BETULIA CATARINA SFORZA LLIBRE

14. CURIOSITIES
 A crater in the
planet Mercury
has been named in his
honor: the
crater Botticelli.
 His name is included
in the list of “Grandes
Maestros” of Priory
of Sion.

15. THE END