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Museum director Thomas Campbell calls “Botticelli Drawings,” the new exhibit at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, “a tour de force of scholarship and connoisseurship.” That’s ...
Picture Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus” — but instead of the goddess rising out of a seashell in the ocean, it’s a plastic shell in a Phoenix backyard. Venus is a queer woman who’s tattooed and wearing ...
"Lucretia" was the first Botticelli to land on U.S. soil. Silver says Isabella Stewart Gardner purchased it in 1894 with help from pioneering art scholar and dealer Bernard Berenson.
The Botticelli paintings they championed are, for the most part, the same ones that draw crowds to the Uffizi today: allegorical and mythological scenes like “La Primavera” and “Birth of ...
An exhibit of Sandro Botticelli’s work is currently on display at the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia, and will soon travel to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The ...
A rare portrait by Italian painter Sandro Botticelli sold for a record $92.2 million Thursday, about nine times the previous high price for the Old Master, Sotheby's said.
The painting, long thought to be a 19th-century copy, will be displayed alongside the original Botticelli at Chambord Castle. Virgin Mary, Infant Christ, and the young St. John the Baptist, studio ...
Both paintings are richly colorful tableaux that tell the stories of women who meet tragic ends at the hands of men driven by sexual and violent appetites. Though Botticelli is best known for his ...
A painting thought to be an imitation of a 15th century Botticelli masterpiece actually comes from the master’s workshop, according to conservation charity English Heritage.
Botticelli’s ‘Madonna and Child With the Infant St. John,’ ca. 1505 Gabinetto Fotografico delle Galleria degli Uffizi By Tobias Grey Sept. 3, 2021 2:01 pm ET Share ...
This Botticelli Painting, Once Owned by the Late Paul Allen, Could Fetch $40 Million at Auction The work, titled 'Madonna of the Magnificat', will be offered by Christie’s this November.