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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 ...

Botticelli included no fewer than 138 accurately depicted plant species in this lush springtime scene, one of the artist’s best-known paintings despite the fact that its precise meaning remains ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anna Weyant has had quite a year. Last spring two of the 27-year-old artist’s melodramatic female portraits, which have led to her well-earned reputation as the “millennial Botticelli,” set ...

“Old Masters” such as Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli and Rembrandt may have used proteins, especially egg yolk, in their oil paintings, according to a new study.

Four paintings by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) from the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, Italy, were unpacked on Friday at the Bund One Art Museum in Shanghai.

An interdisciplinary team of researchers propose that Italian Renaissance masters – artists such as Sandro Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci – added protein to their oil paintings to prevent wrinkling ...

The likes of Sandro Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci may have added yolk to their oil paintings to overcome issues with humidity, surface wrinkling and yellowing, researchers have discovered.