The Spring contains no portraits, but merely Sandro’s characteristic ideal masks. As for Giuliano and Simonetta Vespucci, their relations may have been merely ceremonious.

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.

"Whenever this painting and the Birth of Venus were united at Castello, they have remained together ever since. They stayed in Castello until 1815, when they were transferred to the Uffizi. For some ...

Nikolas Bentel, The Botticelli Dress is based on the Horae of Spring in Sandro Bottiicelli’s The Birth of Venus. Photo courtesy of the artist.

A painting by the famous artist Sandro Botticelli — one believed to be missing for nearly 50 years — has been discovered. The masterpiece depicting the Virgin Mary and the baby Jesus was ...

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, “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 ...