Spring is the most eagerly awaited season. After the short days and long nights of winter, we watch carefully for the small signs—a green shoot nosing up from under snow, the added minute to a cold ...

A Sandro Botticelli portrait of Jesus Christ with bloodshot eyes and a halo of tiny, weeping angels sold for $45.4 million on Thursday in the latest sign of the art market’s resilience. Sotheby’s in ...

Botticelli’s real name was a mouthful: Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi. So, it’s no wonder that the artist’s monniker was shortened to Sandro. “Botticelli,” meanwhile, was a nickname that ...

Over 10 years after its discovery, the painting found in the Loire Valley church has been confirmed to originate from the renaissance. Tests have confirmed that a painting found in a church is ...

A Botticelli masterpiece, Madonna and Child, will soon be exhibited in New Delhi, enhancing cultural ties between India and Italy ahead of Prime Minister Modi's visit to Rome. This follows last year's ...

Sandro Botticelli, "The Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist" ("Madonna of the Rose Garden") (c. 1468), tempera and gold on poplar panel, 35 3/4 x 26 3/8 inches; Musée du Louvre (© ...

Sandro Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” (1444 or 1445–1510) In the 1960s, my childhood bedroom was covered with images of Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” torn from an art book in my parents’ ...

“Botticelli and the Search for the Divine,” a stirring exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, traces the evolution of the early Renaissance master’s career. Its path is tender and rapturous, then dark ...

A painting of Jesus by Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, one of the artist’s later masterpieces and one of the last to remain in private hands, is expected to sell for more than $40 ...