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But Sandro preferred painting, and so his father sent him to work with Fra Filippo Lippi, one of the foremost painters in Florence at that time.

The style of Filippo Lippi, as in the painting below, had a huge influence on young Botticelli. https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1628689415919861760/photo/1 (source: https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1628689415919861760)