By the time Francesco Pazzi entered Giuliano de' Medici's bedroom, the infamous Pazzi Conspiracy was teetering on the edge of collapse. Months of secret plots, failed attempts, and rising tension ...

When the Pazzi assassins attacked the Medici brothers, they unleashed a cascade of chaos, betrayal, and unimaginable violence. What began as a calculated political plot quickly spiraled into a day ...

Over 10 years after its discovery, the painting found in the Loire Valley church has been confirmed to originate from the renaissance.

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 ...

Botticelli’s drawings bring us tantalizingly close to the artist, a man as clouded by intimations of darkness, and seeking some salve of beauty, as we are today.

Viewers gravitate to his astonishingly tender paintings, but at the Legion of Honor, his preparatory drawings offer a view of a gifted master of line.

“Botticelli Drawings,” on view at the Legion of Honor, is the first major exhibition dedicated to the painter’s draftsmanship. The show features five newly attributed drawings alongside over ...

Museum director Thomas Campbell calls “Botticelli Drawings,” the new exhibit at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, “a tour de force of scholarship and connoisseurship.” That’s ...

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 ...

The Italian authorities estimate the lesser-known painting, one of Botticelli’s last, to be worth US$109 million, according to the outlet.

A painting by the 15th-century master Sandro Botticelli, recorded as missing since the 1980s, has been found at a home in southern Italy.