For those with a predilection for immaculately fine and delicate paintings by Botticelli, his Madonna of the Book will satisfy.
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Those are statistics that Botticelli, one of the five featured panelists on Tuesday, has likely memorized.
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Sarah Hajney is an adorable little version of a Botticelli Venus.
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Yet Langdon seems surprised that a painting should not have “originated … in the mind of Botticelli himself.”
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Dark, grim, and terrifying … Botticelli had crafted his Map of Hell with a depressing palate of reds, sepias, and browns.
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Botticelli has first the long line of the horizon echoed in the ground at the right-hand lower corner.
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Did you not see them in the same room with La Calomnie by Botticelli, with a landscape in the background?
Cosmopolis, Complete|Paul Bourget
It was by Botticelli's hand that the greater painter sent a letter to Lorenzo from a duchess friend who was also his patron.
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I had rather then a hundred times have Botticelli's armed angel in his Tobit at Florence.
First and Last Things|H. G. Wells
To Botticelli, on the other hand, it brings a profound melancholy.
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British Dictionary definitions for Botticelli
Botticelli
/ (Italianbottiˈtʃɛlli) /
noun
Sandro (ˈsandro), original name Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi . 1444–1510, Italian (Florentine) painter, illustrator, and engraver, noted for the graceful outlines and delicate details of his mythological and religious paintings