Virgin Mary, Infant Christ and the Young St. John the Baptist, studio of Sandro Botticelli, circa 1510 © GrandPalaisRmn / Tony Querrec For centuries, parishioners at ...

Gianeselli was creating an inventory of Italian works in France’s public buildings and questioned if the painting was actually from Sandro Botticelli’s studio. The painting, a copy of ...

A long-lost painting by Sandro Botticelli, depicting the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus, was found in a family home in Gragnano, Italy, south of Naples. The masterpiece, missing for nearly 50 years ...

Carabinieri for the Protection of Cultural Heritage A painting by the famous artist Sandro Botticelli — one believed to be missing for nearly 50 years — has been discovered. The masterpiece ...

“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.” ...

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.

Moments like this make it clear why the famed art historian Bernard Berenson called Botticelli “the greatest artist of linear design that Europe has ever had.” Image Sandro Botticelli ...

F or centuries, parishioners at a church in a small French town thought that a painting in their collection was a 19th-century copy of a 15th-century artwork by Sandro Botticelli. Now, a new ...

Tests have confirmed that a painting found in a church is actually a long-lost Botticelli-era masterpiece. First hung in the Saint Félix Church, in the Champigny-en-Beauce village of France’s ...