Botticelli died in May of 1510, so his direct contributions remain unknown. Successful paintings were often copied by a master artist’s studio ... clasp each other round the neck, or the ...

(See also: The Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo's masterpiece.) The details of the artist’s early life are few. Of Botticelli’s childhood, the 16th-century historian Giorgio Vasari wrote ...

Or is he? Recently, art historian David Bellingham came to a different conclusion. He noticed that Botticelli painted a fruit in the bottom right-hand corner of his canvas that looks a lot like ...

to burn their art, books, mirrors and other symbols of vanity. Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, known for “The Birth of Venus,” joined in the purge. “I read this story about Sandro ...

In early Renaissance Italy, Botticelli was instrumental in legitimizing portraiture as a form of high art, and Young Man Holding ... He holds a round disc bearing a real-life portrait of a saint ...

EPA An enigmatic painting from Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli will go on auction next year and art watchers will be seeing if it fetches more than its eye-watering $80 million estimate ...