Botticelli
Painted Venus rising
Botticelli is a guessing game where one player thinks of a famous person and others ask yes-or-no questions to identify them.
Players must phrase questions indirectly: rather than asking "Are you a painter?" they ask "Did you paint *The Birth of Venus*?" The game takes its name from the Renaissance artist, a suitably obscure starting point.
European cultural reawakening
- FlorenceTuscan capital city
- painterOne who applies pigment
- masterpieceSupreme artistic achievement
- quattrocentoItalian fifteenth century
Medici · tempera · workshop · apprentice · Vasari · Uffizi · commission · altarpiece
Delicate beyond earthly measure
- flowingMoving continuously onward
- gracefulElegant in movement
- delicateEasily broken or harmed
- goldenBright yellow, or precious
idealized · beauty · elegance · luminous · dreamlike · lyrical · romantic · sinuous
Love goddess, or planet
- MadonnaChrist's mother, or pop icon
- MagnificatMary's biblical hymn
- AnnunciationGabriel's announcement to Mary
- MarsRed planet, war deity
Pallas · Judith · Adoration · Inferno · illustrations · Dante · Flora · Cupid
Victorian artists emulating earlier masters
- revivalReturn after decline
- rediscoveryFinding something previously known
- Art NouveauCurvilinear decorative movement, 1890s
- VictorianOf a prim era
Rossetti · decorative arts · fashion · advertising · iconic · reproductions · homage · parody
Requests for information
- guessingEstimating without certainty
- parlorFormal room for visitors
- cluesHints toward answers
- yes-noLimited to two responses
biographical · historical figures · deduction · indirect · category · identity · famous people · twenty questions
Renaissance
European cultural reawakening
- FlorenceTuscan capital city
- painterOne who applies pigment
- masterpieceSupreme artistic achievement
quattrocento · Medici · tempera · workshop · apprentice · Vasari · Uffizi · commission · altarpiece · fresco
ethereal
Delicate beyond earthly measure
golden · idealized · beauty · elegance · luminous · dreamlike · lyrical · romantic · sinuous · diaphanous
Venus
Love goddess, or planet
- MadonnaChrist's mother, or pop icon
- MagnificatMary's biblical hymn
- AnnunciationGabriel's announcement to Mary
Mars · Pallas · Judith · Adoration · Inferno · illustrations · Dante · Flora · Cupid · shell
Pre-Raphaelite
Victorian artists emulating earlier masters
- revivalReturn after decline
- rediscoveryFinding something previously known
- Art NouveauCurvilinear decorative movement, 1890s
Victorian · Rossetti · decorative arts · fashion · advertising · iconic · reproductions · homage · parody · appropriation
questions
Requests for information
yes-no · biographical · historical figures · deduction · indirect · category · identity · famous people · twenty questions · salon
- 15th Century FiguresChristopher Columbus, Leonardo da Vinci, Johannes Gutenberg, Joan of Arc, Isabella I
- Italian ArtRenaissance art, Futurism, Mannerism, High Renaissance, Roman mosaics
- Renaissance ArtistsDonatello
- artistsPablo Picasso, painter, artist, illustrators, Leonardo da Vinci
- Italian HeritageRome, Florence, Venice, Vatican, Tuscany
- ItalyRome, Venice, Milan, Florence, Naples
BotticelliCaravaggio
Renaissance-era Italian painter
Francis Bacon · Goya · Hieronymus Bosch · Rembrandt · Courbet
BotticelliJackson Pollock
Marcel Duchamp · Andy Warhol · abstract expressionists · conceptual artists · Mark Rothko