Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci was born in Genoa, Italy, on January 28, 1453. She was well-known in Florentine high society for ...

The Uffizi Galleries in Florence have hung their two most famous paintings—Sandro Botticelli’s Primavera (around 1480) and ...

The Birth of Venus by Botticelli has long sparked debate, but new research from Queen Mary University suggests the painting ...

The misaligned gaze of Venus in Sandro Botticelli‘s celebrated masterpiece, The Birth of Venus, has fueled centuries of ...

“It’s possible that the irregular eye positioning in the Birth of Venus – the ‘strabismus’ or squint later considered a trait ...

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 ...

Three preparatory drawings have been newly attributed to Sandro Botticelli as a result of research conducted ahead of a landmark exhibition on the Renaissance master. “Botticelli Drawings,” which was ...

Sandro Botticelli’s masterpieces “The Birth of Venus” and “Primavera” have been repositioned at the famed Uffizi Gallery in ...

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 (© ...

Was Sandro Botticelli a proto-graphic novelist? That’s a suggestion raised in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s new show “Botticelli: Heroines + Heroes,” which features eight works by Botticelli ...

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 ...

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 ...