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 (© ...

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 ...

Sandro Botticelli’s painting Saint Augustine in his Study is part of the exhibit “Botticelli and the Search for the Divine” that opened at the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia, and ...

FILE- In this Wednesday, March 2, 2016 file photo a person photographs a painting by Sandro Botticelli called 'Venus' during the press view for the V&A's spring exhibition Botticelli Reimagined, in ...

Was Sandro Botticelli a proto-graphic novelist? That’s a suggestion raised in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s new show “Botticelli: Heroines + Heroes,” which features eight works by Botticelli ...

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 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 ...

Rare “autograph”-quality paintings by the Early Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli have become the art trade’s equivalent of London buses. You wait and wait and wait, then four of them arrive one ...

In late August, the auction house made waves when it announced plans to sell $1 billion in art held by Allen. Among the works headed to sale are pieces by Claude Monet, George Seurat, Jasper Johns, ...

NEW YORK — An enigmatic painting from Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli will go on auction next year, with the art world watching to see if it fetches more than $80 million despite the economic ...

Sandro Botticelli’s reputation as an artist of extraordinary refinement tends to overshadow his skill as an entrepreneur. Giorgio Vasari, the pre-eminent chronicler of the Italian Renaissance, wrote ...