“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.” Whether or not this ...

BOSTON – A new exhibition of Sandro Botticelli's paintings, including some never seen in the U.S., will give museumgoers a glimpse into the artist's own search for sanctity. The show, "Botticelli and ...

Breaking new ground, Botticelli's iconic Renaissance masterpieces used Christian themes and classic myths to celebrate his patrons, the Medici. Perhaps his most famous work, Botticelli’s “Birth of ...

GIORGIO VASARI was until recent times the last critic who prized the exquisite art of Sandro Botticelli. To have been great and so long forgotten is a pledge of sensational rediscovery. But in a day ...

The painting, which last sold in 1963 for $26,000, was part of a sale of works by old masters. By Scott Reyburn A long-overlooked painting regarded for decades as the work of Sandro Botticelli’s ...

FILE- In this Wednesday, March 2, 2016 file photo a person photographs a painting by Sandro Botticelli called 'Venus' during the press view for the V&A's spring exhibition Botticelli Reimagined, in ...

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