From the imagination of Jordan Tannahill, one of Canada's most celebrated playwrights, comes a daring and provocative reimagining of Renaissance Florence that feels urgently of the now. Botticelli in ...

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 ...

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 (© ...

Botticelli’s iconic painting reshaped Renaissance art through its celebration of classical mythology and beauty. This episode ...

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 ...

Left: The newly authenticated work, attributed to Botticelli's studio (© GrandPalaisRmn; photo by Tony Querrec, image courtesy Domaine national de Chambord), right: Sandro Botticelli, "Virgin and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...