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Which religious frescoes did Sandro Botticelli paint for the Sistine Chapel?
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Sandro Botticelli
Birth of Venus, tempera on canvas by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1485; in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
In 1481, Sandro Botticelli was among the team of Florentine and Umbrian artists summoned to Rome by Pope Sixtus IV to decorate the walls of the Sistine Chapel.12
While the chapel is most famous for the later work of Michelangelo, Botticelli contributed three significant religious frescoes to the project, which were completed in 1482. These works were part of a larger decorative program designed to illustrate papal supremacy through cycles depicting the lives of Christ and Moses.123
Among these contributions, the most prominent is his fresco titled The Temptations of Christ. His work on these frescoes is noted for its brilliant fusion of multiple symbolic episodes into unified compositions.132