Italy: Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci as a Nymph, Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510), tempera on panel, Stadelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany,1485

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, known as Sandro Botticelli (c. 1445 – May 17, 1510), was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He belonged to the Florentine School under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, a movement that Giorgio Vasari would characterize less than a hundred years later in his Vita of Botticelli as a 'golden age'.

Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century; since then, his work has been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting.

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