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Sandro Botticelli Essay

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Choose one artist with several links. View the links. Comment on what you most liked about his work. Do you have one in particular that you liked? Why? I chose Sandro Botticelli because his story called my attention, I believe the story of the Medici family is interesting. Botticelli was born in the period of the Italian renaissance and was took at the age of fourteen to become an apprentice, and by age of fifteen opened his own shop. This is just impressive, I cannot visualize a teenager being an owner of a business, I know things at that time were quite different. Yet, is hard to think this young man was mature enough at that age because I have read books and information about the human brain and how develops. I also know women were married off at the age of fourteen and had babies around that age. All these facts about history, once put together become impressive and shocking. Makes me wonder if humanity is moving forward or backward in the evolution, does people used to mature faster before? Or we just got slower? …show more content…

She appeared many times even on the same painting, it was Simonetta repeatedly or at least some similar looking women then. I believe he was in love with her otherwise why will he paint her so much. What I find intriguing is her death and that she was married. He painted several women that looked just like Simonetta wearing little to none clothes, that makes me wonder if it was true they were in love and had a secret affair. Is possible that Botticelli imagine her like that for his paintings, but during that period artist used to use real people to model for

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