Possible Sandro Botticelli Fresco Painting Found in Ruined
Hungarian Castle. 06/10/2007 - A restoration project in
Esztergom, Hungary has resulted in a surprise possible
attribution of a painting to Early Italian Renaissance painter
Sandro Botticelli. While restorations have been ongoing since
2000 on the four-piece mural, it is only in recent weeks that
art historians have recognized the hand of Sandro Botticelli in
the one of the fresco paintings. One of the 4 fresco painting,
ca. hereto see our fine art The mural paintings were
commissioned to decorate the castle chapel by Janos Vitez,
Archbishop of Esztergom. To paint the frescoes, Vitez employed
the school of Fra Filippo Lippi to whom Sandro Botticelli was
apprenticed. The images depict the four medieval virtues, a
common theme of the Apparent in the fresco painting to even a
casual observer is the flowing red hair characteristic of Sandro
Botticelli's Simonetta Vespucci, who died in 1476, but who
Botticelli continued to paint for the remainder of his ca