# Botticelli’s Medici portrait insertions and post-Pazzi Medici image-work serve dynastic propaganda as received Date: 1478 ## The fact Uffizi and Met Heilbrunn independently emphasise Medici likenesses and patronage in Botticelli’s 1470s–80s work. It is one event. ## Context Art that legitimises one faction’s rule after a coup attempt is a polarization path. Shared Medici patrons remain authors of the brief. Improving craft sits on named panel rows. [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. The Uffizi Adoration already stores Medici faces in a sacred panel. Not every portrait as a twin of the Adoration composition row. 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 Galleries and Met Heilbrunn — Botticelli independently describe this instrument. Official or archival record: Uffizi Galleries (https://www.uffizi.it/en; Gallerie degli Uffizi). ## Significance Medici portrait-propaganda service is a polarization path of medium confidence on any single lost portrait’s look, high that Medici faces are embedded in the public sacred panel file. ## 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 `political-polarization` 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. Split from Adoration composition row and from Pazzi pittura. Museums are carriers. 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 - Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization ## 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-medici-portrait-propaganda