Fortitude

painting by Botticelli

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discussed in biography

  • Sandro Botticelli: Birth of Venus
    In Sandro Botticelli: Early life and career

    …in his first dated work, Fortitude (1470), which was painted for the hall of the Tribunale dell’Are della Mercanzia, or merchants’ tribunal, in Florence. Botticelli’s art from that time shows a use of ochre in the shadowed areas of flesh tones that gives a brown warmth very different from Lippi’s…

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