The great Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli is best known for painted works such as Primavera (c. 1477–82) and The Birth of Venus (c. 1485–86), which hang in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, but a new ...

A small painting by Sandro Botticelli sold at Sotheby's in New York on Thursday for $92.2 million, an auction record for the Renaissance master. The work, “Young Man Holding a Roundel,” from about ...

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 ...

Two activists from the Italian climate advocacy group Ultima Generazione (Last Generation) glued their hands to the protective glass over Sandro Botticelli's "Primavera" (c. 1480) at the Uffizi ...

A 15th century portrait of a young man by Sandro Botticelli —one of maybe a dozen portraits in existence by the early Renaissance artist widely known for painting Primavera and Birth of Venus—will be ...

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 (© ...

(Reuters) - A rare Botticelli portrait sold for $92.2 million at auction at Sotheby's in New York on Thursday, a world record for any work by the Italian artist. The Renaissance artist's "Young Man ...