Word: botticelli
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...chief seat of learning, both in art and literature, in the fifteenth century was Florence. In Botticelli one of the first of the Florentian school, we find all three of the elements of the painting of this period combined. He was a pupil of Savonarola, and was a charming painter if not a great one. The leader of the new awakening in art in Florence was Mazatio, a man whom Raphael and Michael Angelo did not disdain to follow. Many men of other schools also were drawn to Florence who in time adopted the Florentine School. At this period there...
...artist, Theodore Wares. Miss Mary E. Wilkins contributes her first attempt at play-writing, entitled "Giles Corey, Yeoman." Theodore Child, the Art-Critic, whose death was recently reported, has a paper on "Some Types of the Virgin." illustrated from paintings by the great masters, including a picture by Sandro Botticelli, which alone is cause enough for the existence of the Pre-Raphaelite School...