The final price represents a huge price markup for Botticelli, with the previous record for the artist being $10.4 million (what The Rockefeller Madonna went for in 2013).

Sandro Botticelli’s 15th-century painting “Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel” sold Thursday for $92.2 million. “This painting is not just the greatest Botticelli in private hands ...

Sotheby’s sold Sandro Botticelli’s circa-1480 portrait of a “Young Man Holding a Roundel” for $92.2 million to a Russian-speaking collector during a live-streamed online sale Thursday ...

A Sandro Botticelli portrait of Jesus Christ with bloodshot eyes and a halo of tiny, weeping angels sold for $45.4 million on Thursday in the latest sign of the art market’s resilience.

One of 12 existing portraits by Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli will go on auction next year and could fetch more than $80 million.

A small painting by Sandro Botticelli fetched $92.2 million at auction at Sotheby’s on Thursday, in the art market’s first big test of the new year.

Sandro Botticelli's 15th-century portrait of a "Young Man Holding a Roundel" is displayed by an employee at Sotheby's Auction house in NYC. EPA An enigmatic painting from Renaissance master Sandro ...

An enigmatic painting from Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli will go on auction next year and art watchers will be seeing if it fetches more than its eye-watering $80 million estimate, despite ...

Adopting a frontal pose normally reserved for Christ, this anonymous sitter notably isn’t tilted sideways or in profile, making this memorable portrait one of Botticelli’s most famous works. 7 ...

The exhibition “Filippino Lippi and Sandro Botticelli in Florence del ‘400,” showing at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome, through Jan. 15, follows the lives and works of those two painters ...

Botticelli’s “The Man of Sorrows,” a portrait of Jesus Christ, sold for $45.4 million at Sotheby’s in New York on Thursday, the latest sign of the art market’s resilience.