Raffaello Botticini (1474–after 1520) was an Italian Renaissance painter active in Florence and its environs.
Raffaello was trained by his father, the more well-known Francesco Botticini, whose workshop he inherited. 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. This do something is now in the church’s against museum. Raffaello painted supplementary pictures for various churches in Empoli, including two panels of Saint Jerome and Saint Sebastian dated 1500 (now plus at the collegiate museum) and an altarpiece of the Pietà (1508) for the chapel of the Compagnia della Veste Nera, destroyed in 1944. These panels accomplishment the mighty influence of Raffaello’s daddy as skillfully as of Domenico Ghirlandaio and his pupils, Bastiano Mainardi and Francesco Granacci.
Other works by Raffaello Botticini enlarge about a dozen paintings of the Virgin and Child. Some of his well along altarpieces include the Nativity in the vent of Saints Martin and Barbara (1512) for the church of Santi Martino e Barbara in Castelfranco di Sotto (now Saint Petersburg, Hermitage Museum); the Annunciation taking into consideration Saints Andrew and Francis (1513) for San Salvatore, Fucecchio (now in that town’s Museo Civico); and the undated Madonna and Child behind Saints Peter, Matthew, Justus and John the Baptist for the church of Santi Martino e Giusto in Lucardo, in the municipality of Montespertoli (in situ).
Raffaello died sometime after 1520.
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