The goddess of love stands modestly atop a giant shell, born by the winds as an attendant brings Venus a garment. Christened Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, Sandro Botticelli began life ...

Sandro Botticelli, “The Angel of Annunciation,” circa 1485-90. Pen and brown ink, brown wash over metalpoint, on paper tinted with reddish-pink.Credit...Uffizi Galleries Born Alessandro di ...

“He lived in a haphazard fashion,” wrote Italian Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari in his biography of 15th-century Florentine painter Sandro Botticelli. “As was his wont.” ...

The great Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli is best known for ... showcase for the Renaissance master’s output. Botticelli—born Alessandro Filipepi in 1445—ran his own large workshop ...