Botticelli

Corpus Hermeticum

3 BCE

Serapis and Graeco Egyptian God Isis

3

Introduced on orders of Ptolemy I to unify Greeks and Egyptians.

Ficino Birth

Jan 5, 1433

Botticelli Birth

Apr 5, 1445

General

Period: Apr 5, 1445 to Dec 6, 1510

Santa Maria Nuova no Longer Bank

Jan 12, 1463

Benincasa Power of Attorney

Jan 12, 1483

collect money for Sistine Chapel from Pope Sixtus

Bookseller Bernardo di Neri appointed intermediary

Jan 12, 1490

In this case the appointed intermediary was a bookseller named Bernardo di Neri d'Andrea. It is interesting to note this rupture since in 1483 Sandro had given Benincasa (his nephew) power of attorney to collect an unpaid debt from Sixtus IV for work in the Sistine Chapel.

Public Promise not to molest/bother uncle

Sep 27, 1490

A notarial act makes public a promise by those two brothers not to molest or bother their uncle in any way.

Dad mediates btwn Bott & Uncle

Sep 27, 1490

is two nephews, the instrument is quite clear in stating that an intermediary was to be appointed by Giovanni di Mariano to conduct any business concerning those two parties.

Ludvico Sforza hires Lippi

Dec 5, 1490

Hired Lippi for a painting to honor his Grandfather to make an altarpiece.
Botticelli 45 yo.

San Sepolcro Farm Lease

Jan 1, 1491

Giovianni and Botticelli leased property

Santa Maria Nuova - Begin Savings Account

Jan 12, 1492

Botticelli's account, however, is not recorded in the books from 1464 or before. The artist's name first appears in the hospital's Quademo di cassa (cash notebooks) for 1492-96.

Deposit 21 florins 13 soldi

Feb 11, 1492

made with gold and silver coins

Deposit of 40 fiorini d'oro larghi

Jul 20, 1492

Deposit of 138 lire

Oct 6, 1492

Deposit 15 soldi piccioli di grossi

Oct 12, 1492

Deposit by Ruberto di Giovanni de' Ricci & Co., bankers

Deposit 53 florins 4 lire

Nov 8, 1492

by Arte di Porta Santa Maria, the silk weavers guild. Although there is no concrete documentary evidence to show that Sandro Botticelli executed a painting it has been established by circumstantial documentary evidence the Coronation of the Virgin with saints, now in the Uffizi, was indeed painted for the guild's chapel in the Church of San Marco in Florence sometime after 1488. The Santa Maria Nuova deposit, therefore, must be connected to this project.

Bank Account Consolidated

Dec 29, 1492

Rekoned in fiorini larghi di grossi, and transferred to another series of account books, the Libri maestri. Here the account was valued at
121 fiorini
16 soldi
8 danari. The transfer was probably made for accounting reasons, as the monies in the Quademo di cassa were in two different coins and had never been entered into the hospital's Libri di entrata. The transfer allowed for the payments to be recorded not only in the Libro di entrata but also in the hospital's own capital.

Deposit 10 forini larghi di grossi

May 17, 1493

di Giovanni de' Ricci & Co., bankers

SanSepolcro Farm 1st Installment

Apr 19, 1494

Farm Bought 2nd Installment

Jun 1, 1494

Ludovico Sforza hires DaVinci Last Supper

Dec 5, 1494

Botticelli is poor

Jan 12, 1495

1495, as his portata shows, he was a comparatively poor one, is evident enough."

Santa Maria Nuova - End Savings Account

Jan 12, 1496

Burning of The Vanities

Feb 7, 1497

Mardi Gras

Lives with nephews Amedeus & Benincasa

Jan 1, 1498

Botticelli buys Property

Apr 12, 1498

tticelli and his younger brother,
Simone, referred in their 1498 tax return. This act, and its subsequent reporting to the officials of the Decima repubblicana, show that Botticelli paid the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova 155 fiorini larghi for a
perpetual lease on a farm in the parish of San Sepolcro, beyond the Porta a San Frediano

Botticelli & brother Simone filed Joint Taxes

Apr 12, 1498

B was financially
responsible. This purchase was even in the best interests of Botticelli's relatively wealthy nephews, Amedeus and Benincasa, with whom he did not appear to have had the best of relationships, although he shared a house with them at this time.

Ficino Death

Dec 5, 1499

Botticelli Death

Dec 5, 1510

Academies of Secrets

Dec 5, 1540

Guirlamo Ruscelli experimental science became known with 'esoteric knowledge'