So it is the appropriate season for celebrating the Annunciation—and for pausing before Sandro Botticelli ... of preeminent importance. In Botticelli’s painting, Mary’s poise is exquisite ...

“He lived in a haphazard fashion,” wrote Italian Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari in his biography of 15th-century Florentine painter Sandro Botticelli. “As was his wont.” ...

But the exhibit’s modest title and scholarly approach serve as a window into Sandro Botticelli’s Renaissance, with a dozen paintings ... “The Annunciation” (1485-1492) vividly depicts ...

A long-lost painting by Sandro Botticelli, depicting the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus, was found in a family home in Gragnano, Italy, south of Naples. The masterpiece, missing for nearly 50 years ...

GIORGIO VASARI was until recent times the last critic who prized the exquisite art of Sandro Botticelli ... of the Virgin with Angels, and the Annunciation, in the Uffizi; the allegorical frescoes ...

Carabinieri for the Protection of Cultural Heritage A painting by the famous artist Sandro Botticelli — one believed to be missing for nearly 50 years — has been discovered. The masterpiece ...

Virgin Mary, Infant Christ and the Young St. John the Baptist, studio of Sandro Botticelli, circa 1510 © GrandPalaisRmn / Tony Querrec For centuries, parishioners at ...

Italian police have recovered a painting they believe to be by Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli in Gragnano, near Naples, after the authorities lost track of it more than half a century ago.

Media and Sport The UK government has placed an export bar on a painting of the Virgin Mary by Sandro Botticelli valued at £10.2m. The work, The Virgin and Child Enthroned (1470s), was sold at ...

By Emily Steer Viewers gravitate to his astonishingly tender paintings ... in Berlin explores Botticelli’s artistic legacy. The exhibition “Filippino Lippi and Sandro Botticelli in Florence ...