Saint Augustine In His Study (Botticelli, Uffizi)
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''Saint Augustine in His Study'', is a painting by the Italian
Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ideas ...
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Sandro Botticelli Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi ( – May 17, 1510), known as Sandro Botticelli (, ), was an Italian Renaissance painting, Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th cent ...
, finished around 1490–1494. It is housed in the
Uffizi The Uffizi Gallery (; it, Galleria degli Uffizi, italic=no, ) is a prominent art museum located adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria in the Historic Centre of Florence in the region of Tuscany, Italy. One of the most important Italian museums ...
, in
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. This work was probably executed for an
Augustinian hermit The Order of Saint Augustine, ( la, Ordo Fratrum Sancti Augustini) abbreviated OSA, is a religious mendicant order of the Catholic Church. It was founded in 1244 by bringing together several eremitical groups in the Tuscany region who were fo ...
of Santo Spirito, as shown by the fact the saint wears both episcopal and hermit garments. As many of Botticelli's late works, it is inspired by the preaching of
Savonarola Girolamo Savonarola, OP (, , ; 21 September 1452 – 23 May 1498) or Jerome Savonarola was an Italian Dominican friar from Ferrara and preacher active in Renaissance Florence. He was known for his prophecies of civic glory, the destruction of ...
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See also

* ''Saint Augustine in His Study'' (Botticelli, Ognissanti) *
List of works by Sandro Botticelli The following is a list of panel paintings, works on canvas and frescoes by the Italian painter Sandro Botticelli.Barbara Deimling. ''Botticelli.'' Taschen. Cologne 2007. The few surviving drawings are excluded. It is not indicated if some works m ...


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1490s paintings Paintings by Sandro Botticelli in the Uffizi Paintings of Augustine of Hippo Books in art {{15C-painting-stub