Botticello

Filipepe, apprenticed the boy to a goldsmith, who rejoiced in the nickname of Botticello -- 'the little tun' -- perhaps on account of his rotund figure, and it was from this first master of his that the boy came to be called 'Botticello's Sandro.'

Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome 1881

"Face of a Botticello angel!" he thought, and steeled his heart against her.

Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Various

Botticelli, beginning as a goldsmith's apprentice (Botticello, the little bottle), ended as a painter, the most original in all Italy.

Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890

Alessandro Filipepi (Sandro Botticelli, or Sandro di Botticello), 190

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 02 (of 10), Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi Giorgio Vasari 1542

Botticelli, Sandro (Sandro di Botticello, or Alessandro Filipepi), 190

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 02 (of 10), Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi Giorgio Vasari 1542

Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro Filipepi, or Sandro di Botticello), 3,

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo Giorgio Vasari 1542

Alessandro Filipepi (Sandro Botticelli, or Sandro di Botticello), _Life_, 247-254.

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 03 (of 10), Filarete and Simone to Mantegna Giorgio Vasari 1542

Sandro Botticelli (Sandro di Botticello, or Alessandro Filipepi), 190

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 02 (of 10), Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi Giorgio Vasari 1542

Sandro Botticelli (Sandro di Botticello, or Alessandro Filipepi), _Life_, 247-254.

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 03 (of 10), Filarete and Simone to Mantegna Giorgio Vasari 1542

And in the Church of Ognissanti in Florence, in competition with S.ndro di Botticello, he painted a S. Jerome in fresco (which is now beside the door that leads to the choir), surrounding him with an infinite number of instruments and books, such as are used by the learned.

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 03 (of 10), Filarete and Simone to Mantegna Giorgio Vasari 1542