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 ...

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 ...

“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.” ...

A painting by the famous artist Sandro Botticelli — one believed to be missing for nearly 50 years — has been discovered. The masterpiece depicting the Virgin Mary and the baby Jesus was ...

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.

In most of the paintings and drawings attributed to the “Workshop of Sandro Botticelli” that close out the exhibition, something is missing; in the large and colorful tondo “Virgin and Child ...

For 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 ...

Sandro Botticelli was a renaissance painter who lived from 1445 to 1510 in Florence. A contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci, his work is seen as part of art history’s transition from Italian gothic ...