Sandro Botticelli: The Drawings for Dante’s Divine Comedy (2001), edited by Hein-Th Schulze Altcappenberg “The general knowledge of Botticelli as a draughtsman today relies almost entirely on ...

A rare early painting by Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli has been placed under a temporary export bar in the hope it can be saved for the nation. A rare early Botticelli painting of the Madonna ...

Italian police have recovered a painting they believe to be by Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli in Gragnano ... A depiction of Madonna and child, the painting, which has badly deteriorated ...

Among the most surprising are the illustrations of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” by Sandro Botticelli, the Florentine painter famous for the mysterious “Birth of Venus” and “Primavera.” ...

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 ...

“He lived in a haphazard fashion,” wrote Italian Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari in his biography of 15th-century Florentine painter Sandro Botticelli. “As was his wont.” ...

GIORGIO VASARI was until recent times the last critic who prized the exquisite art of Sandro Botticelli ... have smiled upon Botticelli, when he painted the so-called Chigi Madonna, now in ...