The great Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli is best known for painted works such as Primavera (c. 1477–82) and The Birth of Venus (c. 1485–86), which hang in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, but a new ...
New light has been shed on techniques used by Sandro Botticelli by experts at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum while preparing for the major exhibition “Botticelli Reimagined”, which will tour to ...
A Sandro Botticelli portrait of Jesus Christ with bloodshot eyes and a halo of tiny, weeping angels sold for $45.4 million on Thursday in the latest sign of the art market’s resilience. Sotheby’s in ...
Sandro Botticelli, “Beatrice explains to Dante the order of the cosmos (Divine Comedy, Paradiso II)” (circa 1481–1495), pen and brown ink over metal pen on parchment, 32.4 x 47.4 cm (© Staatliche ...
Virgin Mary, Infant Christ and the Young St. John the Baptist, studio of Sandro Botticelli, circa 1510 © GrandPalaisRmn / Tony Querrec For centuries, parishioners at ...
The first major exhibition dedicated to the drawings of the Sandro Botticelli (around 1445-1510) will open later this year at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. The show will feature almost 60 ...
Curators at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum inspect and arrange the "The Tragedy of Lucretia" and "The Story of Virginia" by Sandro Botticelli (Jesse Costa/WBUR) Two iconic, Renaissance paintings ...
GIORGIO VASARI was until recent times the last critic who prized the exquisite art of Sandro Botticelli. To have been great and so long forgotten is a pledge of sensational rediscovery. But in a day ...
As galleries postpone show after show and museums are going so far as to sell off blue-chip works just to stay afloat, it is clear the effects of the pandemic are not letting up on the art world. That ...
The discovery was made when the painting was cleaned by conservators. LONDON -- A painting assumed to be an imitation of one of Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli's most famous works has been ...
The painting, which last sold in 1963 for $26,000, was part of a sale of works by old masters. By Scott Reyburn A long-overlooked painting regarded for decades as the work of Sandro Botticelli’s ...