A temporary export bar has been placed on a painting of the Virgin Mary by Italian painter, Sandro Botticelli The work has been valued at £10.2 million The export bar will allow time for a UK gallery ...

Christened Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, Sandro Botticelli began life around ... a variety of projects from the artist, including portraits, religious scenes, and allegorical depictions ...

‘Portrait of Dante,’ by Sandro Botticelli, 1495. Detail.via Wikimedia Commons The most apt comparison to this kind of conversion of life into art could be Ms. Swift, whose litany of ex-boyfriends have ...

“He lived in a haphazard fashion,” wrote Italian Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari in his biography of 15th-century Florentine painter Sandro ... portraits securely attributed to ...

“Portrait of a Young Man Holding ... a show in Berlin explores Botticelli’s artistic legacy. The exhibition “Filippino Lippi and Sandro Botticelli in Florence del ‘400,” showing at ...

In Botticelli’s 1495 portrait of Dante in profile ... A 1495 depiction of Dante by Sandro Botticelli (Picture: Pen News) ‘Two sets of images were generated, one with an objective approach ...

The great Renaissance artist Sandro ... Botticelli developed a style which harked back to the artistic ideals of classical antiquity, and he is known for his individualized portraits.

Sandro Botticelli ... reminder of the darker path his life’s journey took (to sort of quote Dante, whose writing Botticelli famously illustrated), the drawings serving as palimpsest for ...

Sandro Botticelli: The Drawings for Dante’s Divine Comedy (2001), edited by Hein-Th Schulze Altcappenberg “The general knowledge of Botticelli as a draughtsman today relies almost entirely on ...

Image Sandro Botticelli, “Portrait of a Lady at the Window ... unfinished set of drawings Botticelli made to illustrate Dante’s “Divine Comedy” for his patron Lorenzo.

But the exhibit’s modest title and scholarly approach serve as a window into Sandro ... by Botticelli and his student Filippino Lippi in the 1460s and 1470s. Botticelli’s “Portrait of ...

The portrait of the Virgin Mary and child, painted in tempera on wood, was commissioned by the Roman Catholic Church in 1470 from artist Sandro Botticelli, per CNN. Botticelli's most famous works ...