She is "the most dashing of fashion's local cynosures," as one critic put it, "who can order the whole symphony orchestra ... encounter, Botticelli also conclusively demonstrates his abilities ...

One of his students was the eager young Italian, Ottorino Respighi. While Respighi was in St. Petersburg playing in the opera orchestra ... and the Botticelli Triptych: three Renaissance paintings ...

But the exhibit’s modest title and scholarly approach serve as a window into Sandro Botticelli’s Renaissance, with a dozen paintings by him or attributed to his workshop also on view.

Works from Botticelli’s teacher Filippo Lippi, his student Filippino Lippi and other contemporaries are also on display to provide context for the large body of Botticelli’s works. What makes the show ...

“I read this story about Sandro Botticelli willingly burning his own masterpieces in the Bonfire of the Vanities, and I tried to get inside what would have provoked him to do that,” Tannahill say ...

Both are significant works from around 1407, Spike said. While Botticelli’s painting echoes his mentor’s, Botticelli’s Madonna has more realistic beauty compared to Lippi’s near-perfect ...

A Venus painting by Italian master Sandro Botticelli will go on view in the United States for the first time as part of a touring exhibition featuring sixteen paintings from throughout his oeuvre.