The painting Venus and Mars by Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli has left the National Gallery in London for the first time since its acquisition in 1874. The artwork, which will be dis ...

A virgin birth—true story or fantastical allegory? Whatever your beliefs, you can’t deny that an immaculate conception is a terrific tale! The Annunciation is a key event in the Christian biblical ...

For centuries, parishioners at a church in a small French town thought that a painting in their collection was a 19th-century copy of a 15th-century artwork by Sandro Botticelli. Now, a new ...

Sandro Botticelli was a renaissance painter who lived from 1445 to 1510 in Florence. A contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci, his work is seen as part of art history’s transition from Italian gothic ...

A previously unknown Sandro Botticelli painting was discovered using ... attribution to Botticelli and his studio is accepted by art historians. In 2010, art historian and curator Matteo ...