[bot-i-chel-ee; It. bawt-tee-chel-lee] 
San⋅dro [san-droh, sahn-; It. sahn-draw] , (Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi ), 1444?–1510, Italian painter. |
| Bot·ti·cel·li (bŏt'ĭ-chěl'ē) Italian painter of the Florentine school whose flowing draftsmanship is evident in his masterpieces, Primavera (c. 1477) and Birth of Venus (c. 1485). |
An Italian painter of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. His best-known work is The Birth of Venus.