Sesshū, a medieval master of Japanese painting, became versed in Chinese art during a trip to the continent and went on to ...

Stanley Tucci recently starred in a five-part series called Tucci in Italy, and the actor has shared his love for the country and its food. But there's one city you should visit - and it's not the ...

Born Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi in Florence around 1445, Sandro Botticelli became one of the most celebrated painters of the Italian Renaissance. Botticelli’s nickname (“little barrel”) ...

Now, after passing through a curiously expansive, sofa-bedecked foyer (with a gigantic screen), reimagined by the German-born architect ... and reframed), or Sandro Botticelli’s Venus and ...

Here, within these walls, the civilisation of mankind was born anew.’ Overwhelmed by the historical ... The Birth of Venus (c1484-6) by Sandro Botticelli. Courtesy Uffizi Gallery, Florence/Wikipedia ...

In Sandro Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus” painting, Venus is accompanied by falling roses, which were said to have been born on the day of the goddess’s nativity, offers Compton.

Born from the Roman deities of love and war ... It was a blending classical mythology with the refined sensibilities of Renaissance culture. Sandro Botticelli, La Primavera, c.1477-1482. Image ...

The Birth of Venus Sandro Botticelli, the great Italian painter of the early Renaissance ... As for the right side of the artwork, one of the graces meets the goddess born on the shore. According to ...

“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.” ...

When you hear the name Sandro Botticelli, you might be more likely ... and the wooden hut he was born in sits in front of a cave where he would eventually be laid to rest in before his resurrection.

Johann Joseph Zoffany's The Flower Girl and The Watercress Girl Courtesy of Bonhams German-born Zoffany enjoyed ... but did include a work by Sandro Botticelli, one of the few true “trophy ...