“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 ...

Spring is the most eagerly awaited season. After the short days and long nights of winter, we watch carefully for the small signs—a green shoot nosing up from under snow, the added minute to a cold ...

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 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 ...

Editor’s Note: Gabriele Neher is Assistant Professor of History of Art at the University of Nottingham. CNN is showcasing the work of The Conversation, a collaboration between journalists and ...

Italy’s Tourism Ministry unveils Francesca Faccini as a real-life Venus for its new Welcome to Meraviglia campaign.

Viewers gravitate to his astonishingly tender paintings, but at the Legion of Honor, his preparatory drawings offer a view of a gifted master of line. By Karen Rosenberg Reporting from San Francisco ...

The work titled Young Man Holding a Roundel is one of only about a dozen of Botticelli's portraits known to have survived Sotheby's said it was one of the most significant portraits of any period ever ...

The discovery was made when the painting was cleaned by conservators. LONDON -- A painting assumed to be an imitation of one of Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli's most famous works has been ...

Who wants to buy a Botticelli? Now’s your chance. A lovely portrait with an excellent pedigree by the Florentine Renaissance painter who gave us “The Birth of Venus,” that favorite pagan image for ...