The Lonely Palette podcast brings art history to everyone. Host Tamar Avishai interviews museum visitors about famous paintings. An episode focuses on Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. This ...

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 (© ...

In the popular imagination, Sandro Botticelli (c. 1445-1510) is associated with ethereal nymphs, idealized nudes, and blond beauties, thanks largely to the ubiquity of his most famous paintings, ...

"The last time the authorities had inspected the private residence where the Botticelli painting was kept was over 50 years ago," an Italian official said. "Since then, inexplicably, the painting had ...

Museum director Thomas Campbell calls “Botticelli Drawings,” the new exhibit at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, “a tour de force of scholarship and connoisseurship.” That’s effusive praise for ...

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 15th-century Italian old master Sandro Botticelli was responsible for some of the most famous paintings in history. His mythological and religious scenes “Primavera” and “Adoration of the Magi” ...

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. announced today that it will lend major works from its collection to 10 regional museums across the country in 2025 and 2026 as part of a new initiative ...