Botticelli

Sandro Botticelli was a very good-humoured man and much given to playing jokes on his pupils and friends. It is also said of Sandro that he was extraordinarily fond of any serious student of painting, and that he earned a great deal of money but wasted it all through carelessness and lack of management.

	"While still a young man Botticelli painted in the Mercanzia of Florence, among the pictures of virtues executed by Antonio and Piero Pollaiuolo, a figure representing Fortitude." I-224 Fortitude
	"He also painted a panel picture for the Convertite Convent and another for the nuns of Santa Barnaba." I-225 San Barnaba altarpiece
	Head of St John, detail of San Barnaba altarpiece
	San Barnaba altarpiece (predella)
	San Barnaba altarpiece (predella)
	San Barnaba altarpiece (predella)
	San Barnaba altarpiece (predella)
	"Botticelli was commissioned by the Guild of Porta Santa Maria to do a panel picture for San Marco showing the Coronation of Our Lady surrounded by a choir of angels, which he designed and executed very competently." I-225 Coronation of the Virgin (San Marco altarpiece)
	"He also carried out many works in the house of the Medici for Lorenzo the Magnificent, notably a life-size Pallas on a shield wreathed with fiery branches and a Saint Sebastian." I-225 Pallas and the Centaur
	Saint Sebastian