Botticelli Artist and Designer

Maître des bâtiments gothiques d’après Botticelli, La Vierge du Magnificat, ca. 1490, Musée Fabre, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, dépôt du Musée du Louvre, 1979 © Musée Fabre de Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole / photographie Frédéric Jaulmes

Botticelli, Artist and Designer celebrates the genius of Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) and his workshop, with around forty works by the master and contemporaries, who were greatly influenced by him. Working at a time of Medici rule and profound economic and social change, Botticelli’s working practice - alternating between one-off commissions and series produced with workshop assistance - remain something of a mystery. The exhibition thus present Botticelli not only as a creative artist but also as a entrepreneur and master (capobottega). It includes works from, amongst others, the Louvre, the National Gallery in London, the Rijksmuseum, the Vatican museums and Vatican Library, the Uffizi, the Galleria Sabauda in Turin, the Galleria dell’Accademia and the Bargello National Museum in Florence, the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, the Alte Pinakothek in Munich and the Städel Museum in Frankfurt.