Botticelli in the Fire imagines the famed painter Sandro Botticelli as an irrepressible seeker of love and pleasure, caught in sexual and political brinkmanship.

“’Botticelli Drawings’ reunites this beloved artist’s graphic output as a whole for the very first time, a challenging endeavor given the rarity and fragility of these works,” Rinaldi notes.

After a detailed conservation process, the painting Madonna of the Pomegranate has been confirmed to have come from Sandro Botticelli's Florence workshop. The painting was long thought to be a fake.

Picture Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus” — but instead of the goddess rising out of a seashell in the ocean, it’s a plastic shell in a Phoenix backyard. Venus is a queer woman who’s tattooed and wearing ...

BOTTICELLI IN THE FIRE/SUNDAY IN SODOM by Jordan Tannahill, directed by Matjash Mrozewski (Fire) and Estelle Shook (Sodom), with Salvatore Antonio, Valerie Buhagiar, Nicola Correia-Damude, Stephen ...

Botticelli's illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy were reunited and put on display together in Italy on Tuesday for the first time in centuries. President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi inaugurated the ...

This Painting Was Thought to Be a Botticelli Copy. Now, Researchers Say It Was Made in His Studio A new analysis suggests that the piece was created by several artists working in the Italian ...

But behind every great painting is a drawing — or several. “Botticelli Drawings,” on view at the Legion of Honor, is the first major exhibition dedicated to the painter’s draftsmanship.

Italian police have recovered a painting they believe to be by Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli in Gragnano, near Naples, after the authorities lost track of it more than half a century ago.

In the popular imagination, Sandro Botticelli (c. 1445-1510) is associated with ethereal nymphs, idealized nudes, and blond beauties, thanks largely to the ubiquity of his most famous paintings ...