BOSTON — Set aside your association of Botticelli with the “Birth of Venus” (ca. 1485) and its cool flame of female nudity, and turn your attention to another line in his oeuvre: multi-episodic, ...

Sandro Botticelli, "The Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist" ("Madonna of the Rose Garden") (c. 1468), tempera and gold on poplar panel, 35 3/4 x 26 3/8 inches; Musée du Louvre (© ...

In late August, the auction house made waves when it announced plans to sell $1 billion in art held by Allen. Among the works headed to sale are pieces by Claude Monet, George Seurat, Jasper Johns, ...

A painting of Jesus by Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, one of the artist’s later masterpieces and one of the last to remain in private hands, is expected to sell for more than $40 ...

"The last time the authorities had inspected the private residence where the Botticelli painting was kept was over 50 years ago," an Italian official said. "Since then, inexplicably, the painting had ...

Museum director Thomas Campbell calls “Botticelli Drawings,” the new exhibit at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, “a tour de force of scholarship and connoisseurship.” That’s effusive praise for ...

Sandro Botticelli’s Madonna of the Magnificat will appear alongside paintings by Jasper Johns, Georgia O’Keefe, and Georges Seurat in Christie’s November 9 “Visionary” auction of 150 works once owned ...

The 15th-century Italian old master Sandro Botticelli was responsible for some of the most famous paintings in history. His mythological and religious scenes “Primavera” and “Adoration of the Magi” ...

Jan. 28 (UPI) --A rare portrait by Italian painter Sandro Botticelli sold for a record $92.2 million Thursday, about nine times the previous high price for the Old Master, Sotheby's said. The 1480-era ...

In the lead-up to its auction in New York, Sotheby’s sent a 15th century painting by the early Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli on a world tour, traveling from New York to Dubai, London, ...

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The young nobleman gazing out of the canvas may have been a member of the House of Medici, whose powerful patriarch raised taxes on the wealthy of Renaissance Florence. Now the 540-year-old painting, ...