The artist Sandro Botticelli was born Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi in the Ognissanti region of Florence, Italy. The Mystical Nativity by Botticelli is one of the most personal and intense paintings in the history of art. His other most famous paintings include Primavera, The Birth of Venus, and Pallas and the Centaur which all hang in the Ufizzi Gallery.
