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 ...

Was Sandro Botticelli a proto-graphic novelist? That’s a suggestion raised in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s new show “Botticelli: Heroines + Heroes,” which features eight works by Botticelli ...

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 (© ...

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From the 1800s until just a few years ago, parishioners at the church of Saint Félix in the small town of Champigny-en-Beauce in France’s Loire Valley attended services in the presence of a painting ...

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 ...

A Botticelli masterpiece presumed missing for over 50 years had been hanging in an Italian family's home. Despite the painting being entrusted to the family for safekeeping, authorities had somehow ...

Sandro Botticelli's "Adoration of the Magi", commissioned by the banker Gaspare di Zanobi del Lama, became a famous work not ...

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 ...

Experts cleaning a supposed imitation of a Botticelli painting have discovered it was actually created in the Renaissance master's own studio. The work had been thought to be a later copy of the ...