Sandro Botticelli, Alessandro Filipepi dit Botticelli, Portrait de Michele Marullo Tarcaniota”, n. 25.

[Machine translation] In the sheet, the author analyzes Sandro Botticelli's complex canvas (transport) with the portrait of the humanist and warrior poet Michele Marullo Tarcaniota (1453-1500), from a family of Greek origin, exiled to Italy. In particular, Patrizia Zambrano returns to two crucial and still open questions for this very important portrait: that of the client (and therefore of the function of the portrait) and that of dating, both also conditioned by the chronology of Marullo's Florentine stays. He settled in Florence for the first time between 1489 and 1494, and then returned in 1496 and married, in that year or the following, the highly cultured Alessandra Scala (1475-1506), daughter of the Chancellor of the Republic, Bartolomeo. The sheet investigates what the 'occasion' of the portrait was (a lucky publication or death?) and therefore its function: commemorative or commemorative? At the same time, the card is an opportunity to return to the highly topical theme of the 'ideal scholar portrait' to which Botticelli gives that 'virile air' that an anonymous agent of the Duke of Milan recognized to the painter's style at the beginning of the last decade of the fifteenth century. With a distinctly disciplinary point of view, the author also identifies, but not least, the linguistic tools used by Sandro Botticelli in the composition of this innovative and masterful portrait.