Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli or Il Botticello "The Little Barrel"; (c. 1445 – May 17, 1510) is an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (Quattrocento).

Less than a hundred years later, this movement, under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, will be characterized by Giorgio Vasari as a "golden age", a thought, suitably enough, he expressed at the head of his Vita of Botticelli.

His posthumous reputation suffers until the late 19th century; since then his work has been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting.

Among his best known works are The Birth of Venus and Primavera.