Ten Things You Might Not Know About Botticelli

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“If Botticelli were alive now he’d be working for Vogue,” actor Peter Ustinov once remarked – and indeed the early Renaissance painter’s forward-thinking ideas about beauty and technique might have served him better in the present day than they did when he was working. In spite of some 300 years spent in the shadows however, Botticelli’s great works have permeated every corner of pop culture since he was rediscovered by the pre-Raphaelites in the mid-19th century –…