Florentine painter of the Medici circle, best known for the secular mythologies The Birth of Venus and Primavera — the first large-scale non-religious nudes in European painting since antiquity. In the 1490s, under the influence of the reformer Savonarola, he turned away from such subjects and reportedly burned some of his earlier work in the Bonfire of the Vanities. He died in obscurity in 1510 and was largely forgotten until the Pre-Raphaelites rediscovered him in the 19th century.