Botticelli’s interpretation—almost comic-strip style—of these violent ancient stories of heroines and heroes is dense and graphic, and the tales may not be well-known to contemporary ...

Crane’s contemporary Evelyn de Morgan also reacts to Botticelli, but while Crane depicts a lofty and unobtainable Goddess, De Morgan sketched a copy of the Birth of Venus where the focus is on ...

An exhibition that portrays the 15th-century Italian painter Sandro Botticelli and his blonde Venuses as an inspiration for the modern Western ideal of female beauty will open this month in Berlin ...

The Botticelli exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, so filled with the hopes and ambitions of the Renaissance, ... Confronted with her at the MFA, she looks utterly contemporary.

The exhibit features Botticelli’s Story of Lucretia, part of the Gardner’s permanent collection and the first Botticelli masterpiece brought to America back in 1894, reunited with its ...

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 ...

A small show at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is the first to focus on the revolutionary narrative paintings of the early Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, best known for his ...