Sotheby’s sold Sandro Botticelli’s circa-1480 portrait of a “Young Man Holding a Roundel” for $92.2 million to a Russian-speaking collector during a live-streamed online sale Thursday ...

Sandro Botticelli's 15th-century portrait of a "Young Man Holding a Roundel" is displayed by an employee at Sotheby's Auction house in NYC. EPA An enigmatic painting from Renaissance master Sandro ...

“Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel” dates to around 1480, and its sale is the art market’s biggest test of the new year. By Katya Kazakina A small painting by Sandro Botticelli ...

Who wants to buy a Botticelli? Now’s your chance ... Instead, it is a rarer portrait. We don’t know the identity of the young man, shown half-length and in three-quarter view, seated before ...

Young Man Holding a Roundel is one of just three Sandro Botticelli portraits housed in a private collection. Courtesy of Sotheby's A pared-down Sandro Botticelli portrait of a young Florentine man ...

Sandro Botticelli, Young Man Holding a Roundel ... intricate detail and compelling central subject, Botticell’s Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel has definitively proven that it ...

Sandro Botticelli, Young Man Holding a Roundel, ca ... Bulgarini in the 14 th century and was inserted into the panel before Botticelli painted his portrait. While the significance, both to the young ...

A portrait of a Young man holding a roundel (around 1470-80) by Sandro Botticelli is to be auctioned in New York in January, when it is estimated to sell for in excess of $80m during Sotheby's ...

A small painting by Sandro Botticelli sold at Sotheby's in New York on Thursday ... Sotheby's did not disclose the identity of the buyer. Sotheby's exhibited “Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel ...

One of the last Sandro Botticelli ... an unidentified young man holding a small circular painting known as a roundel. The roundel itself contains a miniature religious portrait by 14th-century ...