A Botticelli masterpiece reported missing for over half a century was found hiding in plain sight: hanging in an Italian family’s home. The Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage ...

In all its artistic iterations across millennia, the nativity remains inherently political in its depiction of God choosing ...

LONDON (Reuters) - An exhibition dedicated to Sandro Botticelli opens in London this week, looking at how the 15th century Italian painter influenced artists and designers though the ages. "Botticelli ...

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 ...

Reporting from Santa Barbara — Scotland is apparently in the midst of a cultural tourism push, with traveling exhibitions from its national museums in Edinburgh and civic museums in Glasgow visiting ...

Rare “autograph”-quality paintings by the Early Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli have become the art trade’s equivalent of London buses. You wait and wait and wait, then four of them arrive one ...

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 ...

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, ...

A masterpiece by the Renaissance painter Botticelli has been rediscovered... in Wales. Portraying an image of the Madonna, the 400-year-old work was dismissed as a crude copy. But experts working with ...

Young Man Holding a Roundel sold at a Sotheby's auction in New York on Thursday A portrait by Sandro Botticelli has sold for $92m (£67m) at auction, breaking a new record for the Italian renaissance ...

Who wants to buy a Botticelli? Now’s your chance. A lovely portrait with an excellent pedigree by the Florentine Renaissance painter who gave us “The Birth of Venus,” that favorite pagan image for ...