BOTTICEL'LL SANDRO (for ALrsssivruto), b. 1447; a Florentine painter, called one of the most original and fascinating of that school. He was the son of Mariano Filipepi, but took the name B. from a goldsmith with whom he served when a boy. From the goldsmith he went to study under the painter Lippo Lippi, after whose death Ls worked independently. All of B.'s creations are colored with an expression of eager and wistful melancholy, of which it is bard to penetrate the sense, and impossible to escape the spell. He was an artist of immense invention and great industry. In color B. was rirh and fanciful, often using gold to enrich the lights on hair, tissues, and foliage. with exquisite effect, and no one ever painted flowers with more inspired affection. The date of hill death is unknown.
litiTTIGER, KARL AuttsT, one of the most erudite and thoughtful archeologists of Germany, was b. 8th June, 1760, at Beichenbach, in Saxony. He studied at Leipsic. In 1791, chiefly through the influence of Herder, he was appointed director of the gymnasium, and consistorial councilor at Weimar. Here he enjoyed the , stimulating society of Schiller, herder, Wieland, Goethe, and others. Ills literary activity at this period was
prodigious. Ile edited several journals, and wrote multitudes of reviews, biographical notices, etc., for the Allgemeine Zeitung. In 1804, B. was called to Dresden, Nsbere he began to deliver lectures on special branches of classical antiquities and art. The result of these was: Discourses on Arclueology (Dresden, 1807); On Museums and Collections," Antiques (Leip., 1808); The Aldabrandinkn Marriage Festiral (a mythico-allegorield inter pretation of a picture discovered 1w a member of the Florentine family of A Idobrandini. representing a Homan marriage,—bresden, 1810); Thoughts on the ArChaology if Painting (Dresden, 1811); and the Mytholoo of Art (Dresden, 1811). In 1814, appeared his Lecturer on the Dresden Gallery of Antiques (Dresden); in 1821-25, his A otalthea, or ..ifut,evto of Mythological Art, etc. (Leip.); and in 1826, his Thoughts on Mythological Art (Dresden and Leipsic). In 1832, B. was elected a member of the French institute. He died 17111 Nov., 1835. Ills works, both in Latin and German, have been collected and edited by Sittig.