Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, known as) (1445-1510)

Painter of masterpieces such as those now displayed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence (the Primavera, theVenus, the Pallas, the Calumny, the Mystic Nativity, the Judith, the Madonna del Magnificat, among others), Botticelli was a pupil of Verrocchio along with Leonardo. He is recalled in the Codex Atlanticus in friendly but argumentative tones, and again in the Book on Painting in a passage where Leonardo criticizes his landscapes: «This painter made very sad landscapes».
Noteworthy is the presence in Florence of the fresco of St. Augustine in his studio, in which appears an astrolabe that recalls the drawing of a perspectograph done by Leonardo around 1480. Botticelli painted this fresco around the same date, 1480, in the Church of Ognissanti, where he was later to be buried.