Botticelli ~ The Adoration of the Christ Child ~ Ceramic Ball Christmas Ornament

Alessandro Botticelli ~ [Sandro Botticelli, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons] ~ * ~ Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (c. 1445[1] – May 17, 1510), better known  Sandro  Botticelli ~ or simply Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century, when he was rediscovered by the Pre-Raphaelites who stimulated a reappraisal of his work. Since then, his paintings have been seen to represent the linear grace of late Italian Gothic and some Early Renaissance painting, even though they date from the latter half of the Italian Renaissance period.