“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.” ...

Virgin Mary, Infant Christ and the Young St. John the Baptist, studio of Sandro Botticelli, circa 1510 © GrandPalaisRmn / Tony Querrec For centuries, parishioners at ...

Roses, flicked with marks of gold, float in the air around her. The painting, the Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli, is one of the most celebrated and reproduced images in the history of ...

The exhibition “Filippino Lippi and Sandro Botticelli in Florence del ‘400,” showing at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome, through Jan. 15, follows the lives and works of those two painters ...

Nato da un incontro impossibile tra le altezze divine e le bassezze umane, la creatura mitologica ci ricorda che oggi è ...