File:Sandro Botticelli 028.jpg

Original file(3,920 × 3,487 pixels, file size: 4.66 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Commons-logo.svg This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. The description on its description page there is shown below.
Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.

Summary

Sandro Botticelli: A Young Man Being Introduced to the Seven Liberal Arts  wikidata:Q6287319 reasonator:Q6287319
Artist
Sandro Botticelli  (1445–1510)  wikidata:Q5669 q:it:Sandro Botticelli
 
Sandro Botticelli
Alternative names
Birth name: Allessandro Filipepi
Sandro Filipepi
Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi
Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi Botticelli
Description Italian painter, drawer, architectural draftsperson and fresco painter
Date of birth/death circa  Edit this at Wikidata 17 May 1510 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Florence Florence
Work period 1460 Edit this at Wikidata–1510 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Florence (1469–1481), Pisa (1475), Rome (1481–1482), Florence (1482–1490), Volterra (ca. 1483), Mantua (1502), Florence (1503–1510)
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q5669
 Edit this at Wikidata
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Young man (Lorenzo Tornabuoni ?) before the Seven liberal arts.
Series title Q115573140 Edit this at Wikidata
Object type fresco Edit this at Wikidata
Genre allegory Edit this at Wikidata
Description
This fresco, along with RF 321 was discovered at Villa Lemmi, near Florence in 1873. They could have been commisssionned for the marriage of Nanna di Niccolò Tornabuoni and Matteo di Andrea Albizzi. The young man on the painting, who may be the groom, is introduced to the Seven liberal arts by Venus (or Minerva)[1].
Date 1480s
date QS:P,+1480-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
 Edit this at Wikidata
Medium fresco and fresco painting Edit this at Wikidata Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 237 cm (93.3 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 269 cm (105.9 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+237U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+269U174728
institution QS:P195,Q19675
Current location
Accession number
Object history Unknown date
Unknown date
: commissioned by Nanna di Niccolò Tornabuoni and Matteo di Andrea Albizzi, Villa Lemmi near Florence (?)
by 1873
date QS:P,+1873-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1873-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: in situ, Villa Lemmi near Florence
1882: purchased by the Louvre Museum, Paris
References
Authority file
Source/Photographer
  • The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202.
Permission
(Reusing this file)
[1]


Licensing

Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.


You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.

Public domain
The work of art depicted in this image and the reproduction thereof are in the public domain worldwide. The reproduction is part of a collection of reproductions compiled by The Yorck Project. The compilation copyright is held by Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH and licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.

References

  1. Les fresques de Botticelli pour la villa Lemmi, pdf number 19306 on the Louvre's Atlas database.
Annotations
InfoField
This image is annotated: View the annotations at Commons

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeDimensionsUserComment
current23:16, 11 September 20133,920 × 3,487 (4.66 MB)Eugene aBetter

The following page uses this file:

Metadata