Botticelli included no fewer than 138 accurately depicted plant species in this lush springtime scene, one of the artist’s best-known paintings despite the fact that its precise meaning remains ...

Rare “autograph”-quality paintings by the Early Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli have become the art trade’s equivalent of London buses. You wait and wait and wait, then four of them ...

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 ...

A quintessential artist of the Italian Renaissance, Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi--better known as Sandro Botticelli--has had an enduring influence on contemporary culture, from art and ...

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 ...

“Sandro Botticelli is celebrated for his inventive, elegant compositions and depictions of ideal beauty,” stated Mary Weaver Chapin, Ph.D., curator of prints and drawings, in a press release.

The museum holds 14 of Botticelli’s paintings in its collections, and “Mystic Nativity” is on display alongside four other Botticelli works in a gallery devoted to Florentine art under the ...

Anna Weyant has had quite a year. Last spring two of the 27-year-old artist’s melodramatic female portraits, which have led to her well-earned reputation as the “millennial Botticelli,” set ...

The painting Venus and Mars by Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli has left the National Gallery in London for the first time since its acquisition in 1874.. The artwork, which will be ...

Traditionalists may prefer a sprinkling of Renaissance romance à la Botticelli or a dollop of Baroque beauty carved out by Caravaggio via The National Gallery’s online print shop.