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Madonna of the Magnificat is completed as a large Medici-neighbourhood tondo as received

Angels and Virgin as contemporary Florentine beauty are later Savonarolan polemical targets in general preaching — not a 1481 crime.

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Context

Shared Medici taste remains.

Sandro Botticelli’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

Uffizi houses the tondo; conventional dating early 1480s. Angels and Virgin as contemporary Florentine beauty are later Savonarolan polemical targets in general preaching — not a 1481 crime.

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  1. 1.Britannica — Sandro BotticelliEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Uffizi — Leonardo and Florentine workshop heritageGallerie degli Uffizi · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Uffizi and Britannica independently treat the Magnificat tondo as a major Botticelli Madonna.

Sandro Botticelli did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act.

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Factrail. (2026). Madonna of the Magnificat is completed as a large Medici-neighbourhood tondo as received. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/sb-magnificat-tondo

https://factrail.ai/facts/sb-magnificat-tondo

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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