Example sentences for: botticelli

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  • At the Carnival of 1494, he shamed the Florentines into throwing their “vanities” — not only clothes, jewelry, and cosmetics, but books and paintings, with Botticelli contributing some of his own — onto a giant fire on the Piazza della Signoria.

  • The prize pieces of this stunning collection include Piero della Francesca’s San Nicola da Tolentino, Mantegna’s Madonna and Child, a Botticelli Madonna, and Antonio Pollaiuolo’s lovely Portrait of a Young Woman.

  • In Florence, where his family had to fight tooth and nail to hold on to their supremacy, Lorenzo “il Magnifico” de’ Medici (1449–1492) found time to encourage the art of Perugino, Ghirlandaio, Botticelli, the young Leonardo, and tempestuous Michelangelo.

  • Botticelli is buried in a chapel (right transept), his St. Augustine adorning the church, while in the refectory in the adjoining cloister, you’ll find Ghirlandaio’s Last Supper.

  • Outstanding attractions are works by Raphael, Botticelli, Rembrandt, Rubens, and Cézanne.


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