Sandro Botticelli was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli's posthumous reputation was experienced until the late 19th century when he was rediscovered by the Pre-Raphaelites who stimulated a reappraisal of his work. Since then, his paintings have been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting.

Additionally, the mythological subjects for which he is most known for today, Botticelli painted an extensive of religious subjects (including dozens of renditions of the Madonna and Child, many in the round tondo shape) and also some portraits. His best-known paintings are The Birth of Venus and Primavera, both in the Uffizi in Florence. Botticelli lived all his life in the same neighborhood of Florence; his only significant times elsewhere were the months he spent painting in Pisa in 1474 and the Sistine Chapel in Rome in 1481–82.

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