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 ...

For the London screening of “Too Much”, Lena Dunham enlisted London designer Ellie Misner and her sensual, all bodies-minded ...

A painting by the famous Sandro Botticelli believed to be missing for nearly 50 years has been discovered in a family home in the town of Gragnano, south of Naples.

A long-lost painting by Sandro Botticelli, depicting the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus, was found in a family home in Gragnano, Italy, south of Naples. The masterpiece, missing for nearly 50 years ...

Botticelli drew them from life, having workshop assistants pose, but they were destined for mythological paintings. (One became a Saint Sebastian in an altarpiece, another the messenger Mercury in ...

Sandro Botticelli’s reputation as an artist of extraordinary refinement tends to overshadow his skill as an entrepreneur. Giorgio Vasari, the pre-eminent chronicler of the Italian Renaissance ...

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.

Greek mythology sparked the Renaissance, transforming art from religious instruction to profound explorations of human ...

Botticelli's "The Nativity of Christ (Mystic Nativity)," is on display at the Legion of Honor. (The National Gallery, London/Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) ...

A painting by the 15th-century master Sandro Botticelli, recorded as missing since the 1980s, has been found at a home in southern Italy.. The depiction of the Virgin Mary and infant Christ was ...

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 ...

Sandro Botticelli's iconic goddess of love in his 15th-century masterpiece “Birth of Venus” has now become a “virtual influencer” in a new Italian tourism campaign ...