New evidence supporting the theory that Botticelli's Venus died from a pituitary tumor has been published in Medical ...

“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.” Whether or not this ...

“Botticelli and the Search for the Divine,” a stirring exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, traces the evolution of the early Renaissance master’s career. Its path is tender and rapturous, then dark ...

Sandro Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” (1444 or 1445–1510) In the 1960s, my childhood bedroom was covered with images of Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” torn from an art book in my parents’ ...

The Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco is presenting an exhibition of drawings by the renowned Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli, showcasing his exceptional talent as a draughtsman.

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 (© ...

A Venus painting by Italian master Sandro Botticelli will go on view in the United States for the first time as part of a touring exhibition featuring sixteen paintings from throughout his oeuvre.

A small painting by Sandro Botticelli has sold at auction for $120 million, a record for the Renaissance master. The work titled Young Man Holding a Roundel is one of only about a dozen of ...

A painting of Jesus by Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, one of the artist’s later masterpieces and one of the last to remain in private hands, is expected to sell for more than $40 ...