Fra Filippo Lippi. Madonna
and Child with Angles, c.
1455, tempera on wood
Fra Filippo Lippi/ linear
style/ use of models
Fra Filippo
Lippi.
Madonna
Adoring
Christ, 1450s
Sandro Botticelli. Birth of Venus,
c. 1482, tempera on canvas
Sandro
Botticelli/
NeoPlatonism
and Marsilio
Ficino/ Lorenzo
di
Pierfrancesco
de’Medici/
birth of a
goddess/
representation
of Venus as a
nude
similarity of Venus to Mary/ decorative linear style/
intellectual contemplation of beauty/ Zephrus and
Chloris/ Cyprus/ Pomona, an attendant Hour
Sandro Botticelli. Primavera (Spring),
c. 1482, tempera on canvas
clothed
image of
Venus/
Venus’
golden
apples/
Zephyrus
and Chloris/
Flora/
Botticelli’s
truth to
nature and
the study of
botany
the three Graces/ blindfolded Cupid/ connections to
the Medici family/ Mercury and his caduceus
Unicorn at
the
Fountain,
from the
Hunt of the
Unicorn
series,
c. 14981500,
tapestry
Sandro Botticelli.
Adoration of the
Magi, 1470s,
tempera on panel
elevation of
sacred figures
over secular
personages/
crumbling stones
and a peacock/
self-portrait of
an artist gazing
out toward us
Right: Sandro
Botticelli. Portrait of a
Youth, early 1480s,
tempera on panel
Below: Detail of
Madonna del
Magnificant, c. 1480s
Sandro
Botticelli.
Madonna of
the
Pomegranate,
c. 1480,
tempera on
panel
Sandro Botticelli. Venus and Mars, c. 1445-1510
Domenico
Veneziano.
Saint Lucy
Altarpiece,
c. 1445, oil
on panel
Bernardo Rosselllino.
Tomb of Leonardo Bruni
(Santa Croce, Florence,
Italy),
c. 1445-1450, marble
Leonardo Bruni/ mixture
of Classical and Christian
iconography/ catafalque/
a deceased humanist with
a book/ winged genii/
escutcheon