Botticelli died in May of 1510, so his direct contributions remain unknown. Successful paintings were often copied by a master artist’s studio ... clasp each other round the neck, or the ...

(See also: The Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo's masterpiece.) The details of the artist’s early life are few. Of Botticelli’s childhood, the 16th-century historian Giorgio Vasari wrote ...

His long fingers are gripping a round, gold-ground painting ... with old master paintings. What makes Botticelli more complicated is that the artist was completely forgotten for centuries after ...

Max Norman laments that Joseph Luzzi’s new book “Botticelli’s Secret” focuses on the history of Botticelli’s long-forgotten illustrations of “The Divine Comedy,” not on the ...

In early Renaissance Italy, Botticelli was instrumental in legitimizing portraiture as a form of high art, and Young Man Holding ... He holds a round disc bearing a real-life portrait of a saint ...

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 ...