Sandro Botticelli’s Primavera is one of art history’s most famous and elusive allegories of the season. In the painting, nine mythological figures appear in an orange grove (a reference to the ...

Olive oil, too. Botticelli, we’re guessing, would probably prefer to attach his name to his artwork. With that in mind, we’ve ranked 10 of Botticelli’s most famous works below.

Sandro Botticelli (ca. 1445-1510) was a lucky man. His father, a tanner, apprenticed his talented son first to a goldsmith (the path of Brunelleschi, Donatello, Ghiberti and, in Germany, Dürer ...

Sandro Botticelli’s “Five Sibyls in Niches: The Persian, Libyan, Delphic, Cimmerian and Erythraean, is on display at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.

Sandro Botticelli, “Head of a Woman in Near Profile Looking Down to the Left,” circa 1468-1470; light gray wash, heightened with white, on paper. via the Governing Body of Christ Church, Oxford ...

Sotheby’s will offer Sandro Botticelli’s masterpiece The Man of Sorrows at a January auction in New York, where the painting of a resurrected Christ is expected to fetch more than US$40 million.