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Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli (* c. 1445 – † 17 May 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 as a "golden age", a thought, suitably enough, he expressed at the head of his Vita of Botticelli. Among his best known works are The Birth of Venus and Primavera.