"Of many of Botticelli's women and youths one might say that they have just awoken as from a dream to consciousness of the outside world, and although they actively devote themselves to the outside world, dream images still echo through their conscious minds."

Background and Training

The Early Work

Inset: Power and Patronage of the Medicis

The Painter of Frescoes

Secular Paintings for Private Palaces

Great Altars for Florentine Churches

Inset: Savonarola and the Political and Religious Crisis at the Turn of the Century

The Late Work

Inset: Botticelli and Dante

The Last Scenic Works

Chronology

Glossary

Selected Bibliography

Photographic Credits