Sandro Botticelli
1444/45–1510 · Late Gothic and Early Renaissance · 2 works
At the height of his fame, the Florentine painter Sandro Botticelli was one of the most esteemed artists in Italy. A tanner’s son, he was nicknamed after the word for a small wine cask. He worked for the Medici and their circle almost all his life, and in 1481 the pope called him to paint in the Sistine Chapel.
2 works · 1480–1495
Albrecht Altdorfer
Head of a Young Man, 1507
Albrecht Dürer
The Virgin with the Dragonfly, c. 1495
Daniel Hopfer, I
Adam, by 1522
