# Botticelli is documented with an independent Florentine workshop including the Fortitude commission

Date: 1470

## The fact

Around 1470 Botticelli appears as an independent Florentine master, including the Fortitude panel for the Mercanzia. This Fact is that workshop-and-civic-commission instrument, not Primavera and not a complete bottega payroll.

It is one event.

## Context

An independent shop is a labour organisation. Brand-rent harm, if any, is not forced here as a unique inequality series without wages.

[Sandro Botticelli](/people/sandro-botticelli)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

By about 1470 he is an independent master; Fortitude for the Tribunale della Mercanzia is a dated public heading. Assistants, including later Filippino Lippi, share labour.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Uffizi artist context and Met Heilbrunn independently treat the early independent shop and civic work.

Official or archival record: Uffizi Galleries (https://www.uffizi.it/en; Gallerie degli Uffizi).

## Significance

A named master’s shop is a labour-capacity path. Confidence high on independence by c.1470, medium on workshop size.

## What is established and what is not

Established: independent shop by about 1470 including Fortitude. Not established: a scudi-per-journeyman table.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Sandro Botticelli.

They are not a public rating.

The driver `labour-market-tightness` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Sandro Botticelli did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. A civic virtue panel is not a Sistine wall. Split 1470 from 1481. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Sandro Botticelli.
The driver `labour-market-tightness` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Sandro Botticelli did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. A civic virtue panel is not a Sistine wall. Split 1470 from 1481. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Sandro Botticelli.

## People

- Sandro Botticelli: https://factrail.ai/people/sandro-botticelli

## Drivers

- Labour-Market Tightness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/labour-market-tightness

## Sources

- https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/bott/hd_bott.htm
- https://www.uffizi.it/en

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/sb-independent-workshop-1470