Sandro Botticelli

Botticelli worked before the age of institutional prizes, so his accolades are historical rather than ceremonial. He is routinely named among the greatest painters of the Florentine Renaissance, and his two great mythologies, Primavera and The Birth of Venus, are among the most studied and reproduced images in Western art. The Uffizi devotes a room to his work and in 2026 reinstalled those two paintings opposite each other as part of a renovation. His influence on the Pre-Raphaelites and on later artists from Warhol to contemporary designers is widely acknowledged. No Hall of Fame, Walk of Fame star, or magazine cover exists for him because those institutions did not exist in his lifetime.