# Botticelli trains in Fra Filippo Lippi’s Florentine workshop as received

Date: 1462

## The fact

Standard lives place Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, called Botticelli, in Fra Filippo Lippi’s workshop in Florence in the 1460s. This Fact is that training instrument as received, not a unique daybook of tasks and not the later independent shop.

It is one event.

## Context

A documented apprenticeship is a knowledge-transmission path. Do not invent a 1462 payroll. Shared work with Lippi and unnamed journeymen remains.

[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.

Vasari and later catalogues place him in Lippi’s shop in the 1460s. Lippi is the master; Botticelli is the pupil.

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

Treccani and Britannica independently describe Lippi as his master in the 1460s.

Official or archival record: Treccani — Alessandro Filipepi detto Botticelli (https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/alessandro-filipepi-detto-botticelli/; Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana).

## Significance

Workshop training is an education path. Confidence high on the master-pupil heading, medium on the exact year.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Lippi-shop training in the 1460s as received. Not established: a recovered indenture dated 1 January 1462.

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.

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 pupil year is not Primavera. Keep Lippi distinct from the Medici panels. 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

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sandro-Botticelli
- https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/alessandro-filipepi-detto-botticelli/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/sb-lippi-training