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 (© ...
From the 1800s until just a few years ago, parishioners at the church of Saint Félix in the small town of Champigny-en-Beauce in France’s Loire Valley attended services in the presence of a painting ...
The great Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli is best known for painted works such as Primavera (c. 1477–82) and The Birth of Venus (c. 1485–86), which hang in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, but a new ...
Viewers gravitate to his astonishingly tender paintings, but at the Legion of Honor, his preparatory drawings offer a view of a gifted master of line. By Karen Rosenberg Reporting from San Francisco ...
The rare masterpiece that Sotheby’s will auction next week is shrouded in mystery and offers an opportunity to reassess the master’s lost oeuvre. Sandro Botticelli, Young Man Holding a Roundel, ca.
One of the most comprehensive shows on Sandro Botticelli ever staged in the United States is coming to the Minneapolis Institute of Art. On Thursday, the museum announced “Botticelli and Renaissance ...
The young nobleman gazing out of the canvas may have been a member of the House of Medici, whose powerful patriarch raised taxes on the wealthy of Renaissance Florence. Now the 540-year-old painting, ...
In the spirit of the holiday season, the Portland Art Museum is presenting Sandro Botticelli’s Madonna of the Magnificat. Created in 1483, the beloved (but rarely seen) work is a tondo, or “round ...
In the lead-up to its auction in New York, Sotheby’s sent a 15th century painting by the early Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli on a world tour, traveling from New York to Dubai, London, ...
Jan. 27 (UPI) --A painting of Christ by Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli sold for $45.4 million at auction Thursday, some $5 million more than expected, Sotheby's announced. The portrait ...
Sotheby’s sold Sandro Botticelli’s circa-1480 portrait of a “Young Man Holding a Roundel” for $92.2 million to a Russian-speaking collector during a live-streamed online sale Thursday, breaking the ...
Art From Botticelli to Basquiat, Art History Goes Emoji Some might find the translation of Vincent van Gogh’s “Self-Portrait With Bandaged Ear” into a smiling cartoon head spurting blood a little ...