Breaking new ground, Botticelli's iconic Renaissance masterpieces used Christian themes and classic myths to celebrate his patrons, the Medici. Perhaps his most famous work, Botticelli’s “Birth of ...

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The goddess perches upon a giant scallop shell, pale green waves lapping around her. Her long golden hair rustles in the wind as she is blown to shore upon her seashell vessel. She is nude, her body ...

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Artist: Sandro di Mariano Filipepi (c1445-1510), known as Botticelli, is such a fixture in our pantheon of great artists - the painter of The Birth of Venus and Primavera, those jewels of Renaissance ...

Sandro Botticelli, "Mystic Nativity" (1500), oil on canvas, 42.7 × 29.5 inches (108.5 × 74.9 cm) (image via Wikimedia Commons) When you hear the name Sandro Botticelli, you might be more likely to ...

Sandro Botticelli’s painting Saint Augustine in his Study is part of the exhibit “Botticelli and the Search for the Divine” that opened at the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia, and ...

Sotheby’s sale this month of an arresting Botticelli portrait, owned by the late real estate billionaire Sheldon Solow, has been heavily publicised. Yet, while Portrait of a Young Man Holding a ...