Botticelli

American  

[bot-i-chel-ee, bawt-tee-chel-lee] / ˌbɒt ɪˈtʃɛl i, ˌbɔt tiˈtʃɛl li /

noun

1. Sandro Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi, 1444?–1510, Italian painter.

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Botticelli British  

/ bottiˈtʃɛlli /

noun

1. Sandro (ˈsandro), original name Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi . 1444–1510, Italian (Florentine) painter, illustrator, and engraver, noted for the graceful outlines and delicate details of his mythological and religious paintings

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Other Word Forms

• Botticellian adjective

Example Sentences

A contemporary of Italian masters Leonardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli, Behzad brought a new style to Herat before settling in Tabriz, in modern-day Iran.

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

He was a favorite of Lorenzo de’ Medici, and his paintings have a superficial resemblance both to those of his teacher, Botticelli, and those of his father, Fra Filippo Lippi.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

Lauren Botticelli, executive director of the Animal Pad, puts that number closer to 80 percent for her San Diego–based rescue.

From Slate • Sep. 4, 2025

They glued themselves to an art-history survey course’s worth of priceless works, from Picasso to Raphael to Botticelli.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2024

At the bottom of the stairs, the rat Botticelli sat waiting, and when Despereaux stepped from the last stair onto the dungeon floor, Botticelli called out to him as if he were a long-lost friend.

From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo