# The Medici expulsion of 1494 collapses Botticelli’s primary patronage network as received context for the later sacred turn Date: 1494 ## The fact Britannica and Treccani independently frame Botticelli’s career against Medici patronage and the 1490s republic. It is one event. ## Context Losing the ruling family’s commissions is a labour-market shock for a workshop. Shared assistants remain. Mythological demand cools; sacred demand shifts. [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. Piero de’ Medici’s flight November 1494 is not Botticelli’s act; the labour-and-patronage shock to a Medici painter is the instrument stored here. Later Savonarolan sacred panels are neighbouring. Do not invent a bankruptcy ledger. 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 Britannica — Sandro Botticelli and Treccani — Alessandro Filipepi detto Botticelli independently describe this instrument. Official or archival record: Britannica — Sandro Botticelli (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sandro-Botticelli; Encyclopaedia Britannica). ## Significance 1494 patronage collapse is a labour path of high confidence on Medici fall as city fact, medium on unique workshop income series — none invented. ## What is established and what is not Established as a sourced public record of this instrument at the date assigned here. 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. Medici fall is context he suffers, not a plot he leads. Split from each sacred panel. 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 - Forced-Displacement Scale: https://factrail.ai/drivers/forced-displacement-scale ## 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-medici-fall-1494