Giuliano de' Medici (25 March 1453 - 26 April 1478) was the second son of Piero de' Medici and Lucrezia Tornabuoni. He was co-ruler of Florence; with his brother Lorenzo the Magnificent.

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi; known as Sandro Botticelli (c. 1445 - May 17; 1510); was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He belonged to the Florentine School under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici; a movement that Giorgio Vasari would characterize less than a hundred years later in his Vita of Botticelli as a 'golden age'.

Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century; since then; his work has been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting.