The painting Venus and Mars by Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli has left the National Gallery in London for the first time since its acquisition in 1874. The artwork, which will be ...

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Sandro Botticelli’s Young Man Holding a Roundel has gone on show at Sotheby’s in London. There the Renaissance masterpiece will remain before being shipped off for auction in New York next month.