Early paintings (up to 1472)
by Sandro BOTTICELLI

Botticelli's early works are recognized to be predominantly small and medium format panel paintings of the Madonna, the composition of which usually bears some relation to famous pictures by his teacher, Filippo Lippi. His earliest biblical history painting, an Adoration of the Magi, the first in a long tradition of Adoration pictures by Botticelli was painted in this period.

Preview Picture Data File Info Comment
Madonna and Child with an Angel
1465-67
Tempera on panel, 87 x 60 cm
Spedale degli Innocenti, Florence

801*1058
True Color
140 Kb



Madonna and Child with an Angel
1467-68
Tempera on panel, 152 x 77 cm
Musée Fesch, Ajaccio

1000*1514
True Color
222 Kb



Madonna and Child (Madonna della Loggia)
c. 1467
Tempera on panel, 72 x 50 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

1227*1800
True Color
286 Kb



The Virgin and Child with Two Angels and the Young St John the Baptist
1465-70
Tempera on panel, 85 x 62 cm
Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence

804*1053
True Color
124 Kb



Adoration of the Magi
1465-67
Tempera on panel, 50 x 136 cm
National Gallery, London

1728*600
True Color
176 Kb



Adoration of the Magi (detail)
1465-67
Tempera on panel
National Gallery, London

809*1068
True Color
132 Kb



Adoration of the Magi (detail)
1465-67
Tempera on panel
National Gallery, London

800*975
True Color
162 Kb



Madonna in Glory with Seraphim
1469-70
Tempera on panel, 120 x 65 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

650*1341
True Color
135 Kb



Madonna of the Rosegarden (Madonna del Roseto)
1469-70
Tempera on panel, 124 x 65 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

750*1220
True Color
143 Kb



Virgin and Child
c. 1470
Tempera on wood
Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon

1112*1546
True Color
233 Kb



Madonna and Child and Two Angels
c. 1470
Tempera on panel, 100 x 71 cm
Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples

800*1093
True Color
140 Kb



Fortitude
c. 1470
Tempera on panel, 167 x 87 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

984*2000
True Color
273 Kb



Fortitude (detail)
c. 1470
Tempera on panel
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

900*868
True Color
173 Kb



Madonna and Child with Six Saints (Sant'Ambrogio Altarpiece)
c. 1470
Tempera on panel, 170 x 194 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

1500*1322
True Color
270 Kb



Madonna and Child with an Angel
c. 1470
Tempera on wood, 84 x 65 cm
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

820*1070
True Color
161 Kb



Madonna and Child with an Angel (detail)
c. 1470
Tempera on wood
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

818*1070
True Color
167 Kb



The Return of Judith to Bethulia
c. 1472
Oil on panel, 31 x 24 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

1000*1353
True Color
246 Kb



The Discovery of the Murder of Holofernes
c. 1472
Tempera on wood, 31 x 25 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

900*1217
True Color
185 Kb



Three Scenes from the Story of Esther
1470-75
Wood, 48 x 132 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

1884*670
True Color
193 Kb



Virgin and Child with Young St John the Baptist
1470-75
Wood, 90 x 67 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

800*1082
True Color
128 Kb




Summary of works by Botticelli
| early paintings | late paintings |
religious paintings | page 1 | page 2 |
| Cappella Sistina | San Barnaba | San Marco |
| allegories | Nastagio | scenic stories | portraits |
| drawings | illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy |