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 ...

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 ...

Botticelli’s real name was a mouthful: Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi. So, it’s no wonder that the artist’s monniker was shortened to Sandro. “Botticelli,” meanwhile, was a nickname that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sandro Botticelli, "Young Man Holding a Roundel" circa 1480, tempera on poplar panel. (Sotheby's) Who wants to buy a Botticelli?

Over 10 years after its discovery, the painting found in the Loire Valley church has been confirmed to originate from the renaissance. Tests have confirmed that a painting found in a church is ...

The work from the 1470s was acquired by the Klesch Collection and will be on loan to the Ashmolean Museum.

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’ ...

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 ...