Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, known as
Sandro Botticelli (; c. 1445 – May 17, 1510), was an
Italian painter of the Early
Renaissance. He belonged to the
Florentine School under the patronage of
Lorenzo de' Medici, a movement that
Giorgio Vasari would characterize less than a hundred years later in his
Vita of Botticelli as a "
golden age". Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century; since then, his work has been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting.