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 (© ...

A painting of Jesus by Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, one of the artist’s later masterpieces and one of the last to remain in private hands, is expected to sell for more than $40 ...

Museum director Thomas Campbell calls “Botticelli Drawings,” the new exhibit at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, “a tour de force of scholarship and connoisseurship.” That’s effusive praise for ...

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 ...

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, ...

Sandro Botticelli’s rediscovered and arresting “Man of Sorrows,” due to be auctioned at Sotheby’s on January 27 – with a guarantee of $40 million – has yet to be studied extensively, as it has been in ...

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 ...

Sandro Botticelli’s reputation as an artist of extraordinary refinement tends to overshadow his skill as an entrepreneur. Giorgio Vasari, the pre-eminent chronicler of the Italian Renaissance, wrote ...