Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance | Botticelli and the Trouble in Italy (Lecture 16)

Lecture 16: In his later career, Botticelli produced works such as the disquieting Calumny of Apelles, possibly painted as a defense of the Puritanical preacher Savonarola, whose execution in 1498 initiated Botticelli's metaphysical phase culminating in the haunting Mystic Nativity.