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, "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 (© ...

"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 ...

A family that was entrusted to care for a Sandro Botticelli painting worth about $109 million for more than a century could lose possession of the work. Photo courtesy of Soprintendenza Archeologia ...

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” ...

In the popular imagination, Sandro Botticelli (c. 1445-1510) is associated with ethereal nymphs, idealized nudes, and blond beauties, thanks largely to the ubiquity of his most famous paintings, ...

Rome (CNN) — A painting by the 15th-century master Sandro Botticelli, recorded as missing since the 1980s, has been found at a home in southern Italy. The depiction of the Virgin Mary and infant ...

In a correspondence regarding a Sandro Botticelli about to come on the market in 1894, Isabella Stewart Gardner's main collection advisor Bernard Berenson famously posed to her: “How badly do you want ...

Painters and sculptors are exploring agency and femininity by depicting floating appendages. By Emily Steer Viewers gravitate to his astonishingly tender paintings, but at the Legion of Honor, his ...

"Young Man Holding a Roundel" was sold by Sotheby's to a Russian-speaking collector during a live-streamed online sale, The Wall Street Journal reported. The artwork broke the record for the Italian ...