News
Inconspicuous Church Painting Turns Out to Be by Botticelli’s Studio
The work was long believed to be a more recent replica of a 16th-century work by the Renaissance master.
Sandro Botticelli
News
Major Botticelli Show to Include Newly Attributed Works
The Legion of Honor in San Francisco says it’s the first exhibition dedicated to the Renaissance artist’s drawings.
News
Climate Change Activists Glue Themselves to Priceless Botticelli Painting
The protest at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence was the most recent in a string of actions involving activists attaching themselves to artworks.
Art
Dante: Our Medieval Contemporary
Why is Dante the Florentine still present with us 700 years after his death?
Art
Botticelli’s Perfect Beauty
A new series explores intimate encounters with a single work of art. This week, we look at Sandro Botticelli's "Paradiso" (1480–1495).
Art
Botticelli Through a Graphic Novelist’s Eye
For Botticelli: Heroines + Heroes, the painter, cartoonist, and graphic novelist Karl Stevens was called in to provide interpretive drawings of the Renaissance master's paintings.
Art
Botticelli's Venuses and Our Enduring Need for Beauty
The Botticelli exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, so filled with the hopes and ambitions of the Renaissance, seems especially timely in our deplorable political moment.
In Brief
Botticelli’s Hallucinatory ‘Divine Comedy’ Drawings Return to England After 130 Years
Lucifer gobbles up the souls of three traitors in an icy inferno, sinners are cooked in baths of tar, and a gauzy-robed Beatrice floats in the heavens.
Art
The Merits of Old Masters' B-Sides, at the Frick
Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery, on view in the East Gallery of the Frick Collection, is a gathering of ten paintings analogous to the cohort of masterpieces in the Frick’s adjacent West Gallery. Visitors are left free to consider each as representing a unique, if not significant mom
Art
The Secret Life of Paintings
Last weekend in a Doylestown, Pennsylvania—which boasts not one but two locally owned, well-stocked bookstores—I picked up an old Phaidon edition of Jacob Burckhardt’s The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy for ten bucks.
Opinion
Botticelli's Birth of Venus Goes 8-Bit
Botticelli's original “The Birth of Venus” is hanging in a soul-stirring gallery in Florence's Uffizi Gallery, a masterpiece of delicately painted elongated figures and an icon of art history. This 8-bit version of the painting by PixelJam [http://www.pixeljam.com/]'s Rich Grilloti is sitting right