28 (UPI) --A rare portrait by Italian painter Sandro Botticelli sold for a record $ ... at museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, London's National Gallery and the Staled ...

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 ...

But this is not that kind of show — and Botticelli, as we come to see, is not that kind of artist, even if the auction houses would like us to think so. Resisting the pressure to blockbusterize ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ... conflicted and varied artist than superficial familiarity might suggest.

(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 ...

1490), a painting whose attribution to Botticelli and his studio is accepted by art historians. In 2010, art historian and curator Matteo Gianeselli recognized similarities between the newly ...

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 ...