Three preparatory drawings have been newly attributed to Sandro Botticelli as a result of research conducted ahead of a landmark exhibition on the Renaissance master. “Botticelli Drawings,” which was ...

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 ...

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 (© ...

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 ...

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 ...

An expansive exhibition in San Francisco brings together the artist’s influential work, including five newly attributed pieces Throughout the Renaissance, drawings became an integral part of the ...

Sandro Botticelli, “Beatrice explains to Dante the order of the cosmos (Divine Comedy, Paradiso II)” (circa 1481–1495), pen and brown ink over metal pen on parchment, 32.4 x 47.4 cm (© Staatliche ...

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, ...

A detail from Sandro Botticelli's "The Chart of Hell" (Wikimedia Commons) In the beginning, it was a project to illustrate all 100 cantos of what is arguably the greatest of all European poems. Then ...

Sandro Botticelli’s large tempera painting “The Birth of Venus” (where the elongated goddess demurely stands on a half shell) is so well known that even Miss Piggy has found herself in one of the many ...