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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

Sandro Botticelli: The Drawings for Dante’s Divine Comedy (2001), edited by Hein-Th Schulze Altcappenberg “The general knowledge of Botticelli as a draughtsman today relies almost entirely on ...

But the exhibit’s modest title and scholarly approach serve as a window into Sandro Botticelli’s Renaissance, with a dozen paintings by him or attributed to his workshop also on view.

Among the most surprising are the illustrations of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” by Sandro Botticelli, the Florentine painter famous for the mysterious “Birth of Venus” and “Primavera.” ...

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, ...