1267, with its beautiful children and sweet Madonna, its lovely landscape but not too attractive Child.

The two boys are Lorenzo, on the left, and Giuliano, in yellow.

One of their sisters leans over them.

Here the boys are perhaps, in Botticelli's way, typified rather than portrayed.

Although this picture came so early in his career Botticelli never excelled its richness, beauty, and depth of feeling, nor its liquid delicacy of treatment.