Botticelli, Sandro, bot ih CHEHL ee, SAHN droh (1444?-1510), was an Italian Renaissance painter who lived and worked in Florence. His pictures are distinctive for their clear, rhythmic line, delicate color, lavish decoration, and poetic feeling. He did not share the interest of his fellow Florentines in nature and science. As a result, he did not try to represent space according to the laws of perspective, or the human body and its movements according to the laws of anatomy.