It’s unknown when Botticelli made the painting (although scholars agree it was the 1470s or early 1480s), nor why exactly he did. Many believe it was commissioned by Medicis as a gift on the ...

While Botticelli’s corpus of paintings and drawings continues to be reconsidered, his private world is really unknown. “He remains an enigma,” McGarry says.

Botticelli, we’re guessing, would probably prefer to attach his name to his artwork. With that in mind, we’ve ranked 10 of Botticelli’s most famous works below. 10.

A long-lost painting by Sandro Botticelli, depicting the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus, was found in a family home in Gragnano, Italy, south of Naples. The masterpiece, missing for nearly 50 years ...

Botticelli drew them from life, having workshop assistants pose, but they were destined for mythological paintings. (One became a Saint Sebastian in an altarpiece, another the messenger Mercury in ...

A painting by the famous artist Sandro Botticelli — one believed to be missing for nearly 50 years — has been discovered. The masterpiece depicting the Virgin Mary and the baby Jesus was ...

All you ever wanted to know about Botticelli, from a monumental monograph of 1908 to a dynamic account of the artist’s workshop practices—selected by the curator Furio Rinaldi ...

A Botticelli masterpiece presumed missing for over 50 years had been hanging in an Italian family's home. Despite the painting being entrusted to the family for safekeeping, authorities had ...

This Painting Was Thought to Be a Botticelli Copy. Now, Researchers Say It Was Made in His Studio A new analysis suggests that the piece was created by several artists working in the Italian ...