A guide for museum visitors in Berlin and Munich, Florence and Rome: Eighteen paintings from all phases of the great Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, presented by one of the most knowledgeable experts on the artist. Sandro Botticelli is famous for his delicate female figures, which often appear more beautiful than reality allows. In contrast, his contemporaries appreciated the artist's "masculine style." Through exemplary paintings, Damian Dombrowski describes how this shift in perception occurred. He shares stories from the painter's life, about the flourishing of the Renaissance in Florence, and the powerful Medici dynasty. He navigates through all phases of Botticelli's work and themes: from the dainty Madonnas to the strict allegorical-mythological paintings, from the charming embodiment of spring to the earthly.