1. Getting to know a
great painter
By Michael Lu

2. Overview
Biography
Artwork
Technique

3. Biography
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi
1445 - 1510 (aged 64–65)
Italian Renaissance painter from Florence
First Florentine painter to paint other subjects
than religious ones or portraits.

4. Biography :Timeline
 1445: Birth
 1460s: Becomes Fra Filippo Lippi’s Apprentice.
 1470: Own workshop / Florentine artist’s guild.
 1475: Adoration of the Magi
 1481: Travelled to the Vatican and painted scenes from
the life of Moses and the life of Christ in the Sistine
Chapel.
 1480-1500: Illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy.
 1482: Primavera.

5. Biography :Timeline
 1486: The Birth of Venus.
 1490: Cestello Annunciation.
 1494: Medici family is overthrown as rulers of Florence.
Girolamo Savonarola becomes the head of the republic.
 1497: Bonfire of the Vanities, Florentine secular art.
Destroyed, Botecelli involved.
 1500: The Mystic Nativity.
 1500-1505: The Life of St. Zenobius.
 1510: Death

6. Artwork
 Adoration of the Magi

7. Artwork
 Primavera

8. Artwork
 The Birth of Venus.

9. Artwork
 Venus and Mars

10. Artwork
 Cestello Annunciation

11. Artwork
 The Mystic Nativity

12. Artwork
 The Life of St. Zenobius.

13. Techniques
Blended the traditional with new
Best at painting flesh tones
Innovative steps
– Poplar coated with gesso
– Charcoal outline
– Foundation colors
– Re drew outlines in black paint

14. Thank You!