The Florentine painter Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) is one of
the greatest artists of all time.
Published to accompany the V&A's major spring exhibition,
Botticelli Reimagined, 5 March to 3 July 2016 The Florentine
painter Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) is one of the greatest
artists of all time.
Renowned for the iconic Birth of Venus and Primavera, his work
has become part of our collective visual memory, influencing
product development, fashion design and artists as diverse as
Andy Warhol, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Rene Magritte and Jeff
Koons. But Botticelli's fame today was by no means a foregone
conclusion.