He hobbled about on crutches for a while, a pensioner of the Medici family, and dying at the age of seventy-eight was buried in Ognissanti, but without a tombstone for fear of desecration by the enemies of Savonarola's adherents.
Such is the outline of Botticelli's life.

We will now look at such of the pictures in this room as have not been mentioned.
Entering from the Sala di Leonardo, the first picture on the right is the "Birth of Venus".

Then the very typical circular picture--a shape which has come to be intimately associated with this painter--No.

1289, "The Madonna of the Pomegranate," one of his most beautiful works, and possibly yet another designed for Lucrezia Tornabuoni, for the curl on the forehead of the boy to the left of the Madonna--who is more than usually troubled--is very like that for which Giuliano de' Medici was famous.

This is a very lovely work, although its colour is a little depressed.