Sistine Chapel artist before Michelangelo (10)

I believe the answer is:

botticelli

(Other definitions for botticelli that I've seen before include "Florentine C fifteen-sixteen artist (Primavera)" , "who painted?" , "Famous Italian" , "Italian painter of The Birth of Venus, d. 1510" , "Italian painter, 1445-1510" .)

I've seen this clue in the Newsday.

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