Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi nicknamed Sandro Botticelli was a painter of the Italian Quattrocento. He belongs, in turn, to the third generation four-hearted, the Great Representative of the Florentine Renaissance of the Quattrocentro, Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, nicknamed Botticelli because his brother had an obesity seemed to a barrel. Sandro adopted that name with pride and today shines among the other authors of universal art. The style of it does not seek naturalism. He tilts rather for delicacy and grace. Maybe therefore female portraits were given so well. This neoplatonism influenced the themes of it. Protected from the Medici, Botticelli was stimulated to paint the myths of antiquity, pagan allegories and other innovative thematic themselves. At that time, painting works of great format that were not of religion were a whole novelty, so Botticelli was one of The first artists in doing so, enjoying great prestige that perhaps would not have the subsequent veneration of other qualmalent teachers. He also had enemies who did not see their exaltation of paganism with good eyes. Painter of the Italian Quattrocentro, great Representative of the Quattrocentro Florentine Renaissance.
