Raffaello Botticini

Raffaello Botticini (1474–after 1520) was an Italian Renaissance painter active in Florence and its environs.

The Tabernacle of the Sacrament for the collegiate church of Sant'Andrea in Empoli, commissioned from Francesco in 1484 and delivered in 1491, was completed by Raffaello in 1504.

Raffaello painted other pictures for various churches in Empoli, including two panels of Saint Jerome and Saint Sebastian dated 1500 (now also at the collegiate museum) and an altarpiece of the Pietà (1508) for the chapel of the Compagnia della Veste Nera, destroyed in 1944.

[1] These panels show the strong influence of Raffaello's father as well as of Domenico Ghirlandaio and his pupils, Bastiano Mainardi and Francesco Granacci.

Other works by Raffaello Botticini include about a dozen paintings of the Virgin and Child.

Nativity with Saints Martin and Barbara , 1512. Saint Petersburg, Hermitage Museum .