The painting, the Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli, is one of the most celebrated ... In the background, a landscape is depicted in a flattened stage-like arrangement atypical of the ...

“He lived in a haphazard fashion,” wrote Italian Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari in his biography of 15th-century Florentine painter Sandro Botticelli. “As was his wont.” ...

Sandro Botticelli, “The Angel of Annunciation,” circa 1485-90. Pen and brown ink, brown wash over metalpoint, on paper tinted with reddish-pink.Credit...Uffizi Galleries Born Alessandro di ...

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.

Virgin Mary, Infant Christ and the Young St. John the Baptist, studio of Sandro Botticelli, circa 1510 © GrandPalaisRmn / Tony Querrec For centuries, parishioners at ...

Sandro Botticelli’s Madonna of the Magnificat will appear alongside paintings by Jasper Johns, Georgia O’Keefe, and Georges Seurat in Christie’s November 9 “Visionary” auction of 150 ...