Jonathan Jones: Theories that the artist had fallen under the spell of a fanatical monk are completely true – as my discovery of a 15th-century woodcut proves …
— Read on www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2010/mar/23/botticelli-renaissance-art-religion

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/sandro-botticelli

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sandro-Botticelli

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/renaissance-master-sandro-botticelli-835226

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