the Madonna and Child with Adoring Angel by a famous Florentine painter named Alessandro Filipepi, who is also known as Botticelli. He was born in Florence, Italy, at about 1447.Botticelli's name is properly Allesandro di Mariano Filipepi, son of Mariano Filipepi (his father), but he is named after the Florentine painter and goldsmith, Botticelli, who he first apprenticed for. Luckily he came into a period of well-being, favored by the Medicis, the noble family of …
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…turned away from Italy. In reality the influence should have faded away slowly for a number of years due to the lack of involvement by the Vatican. Nonetheless Boticelli follows the tradition of numerous other renaissance and Italian painters by creating beautiful, but religious masterpieces that do not accurately tell the time in which they were created, but instead tell of the Catholic churches enduring influence over Italian art and culture regardless of their involvement.