Botticelli's "The Nativity of Christ (Mystic Nativity)," is on display at the Legion of Honor. (The National Gallery, London/Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) ...

Under Savonarola’s influence, Botticelli reoriented his practice from decorative to devout, which in turn inspired “Mystic Nativity.” Scholars discovered that the 12 angels at the base of ...

Sandro Botticelli, “Mystic Nativity,” 1500. In one work, a painting known as the “Mystic Nativity,” rows of figures are arranged as a kind of layer cake “with a complete disregard for ...

Botticelli's 'Mystic Nativity' is a Christmas card favourite... which is strange, because it's a painting about the end of the world. In the 1490s, ...

But Botticelli wants to open your eyes to a vision of faith about the reality of this day. “Mystic Nativity” is the result. Today, I would argue, is one of seven days on which the axis of the ...

The Nativity has been a recurring, if not dominant, theme in religious art — from carved images on fourth-century Roman Christian tombs to Renaissance canvases filled with angels, animals ...

Botticelli’s ultima maniera (last manner) is a rather strange and archaic one.Many people, even specialists, dislike it and tend to ignore these works, more or less. However, I consider them to ...

While Botticelli’s Secret was not intended to be a scholarly monograph in the tradition of John Pope-Hennessy’s Sandro Botticelli: The Nativity, it is, nonetheless, too often marked by ...

Dating back more than 500 years, the Renaissance painter’s “The Man of Sorrows” is expected to attract bids in excess of $40 million when it goes up for auction in New York next year.

Dating back more than 500 years, the Renaissance painter’s “The Man of Sorrows” is expected to attract bids in excess of $40 million when it goes up for auction in New York next year.