To work with the theme, she also had a two-tiered cake depicting The Birth of Venus, a masterpiece of a painting by Italian artist Sandro Botticelli.

Florentine artist Sandro Botticelli created great masterpieces of the Renaissance. Do you know all of Botticelli's most famous works?

In Sandro Botticelli’s iconic “The Birth of Venus” (circa 1485), the titular goddess covers her nude form with delicate, rosy pink fingers.

For centuries, parishioners at a church in a small French town thought that a painting in their collection was a 19th-century copy of a 15th-century artwork by Sandro Botticelli.

The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli was an unpredecented painting when it was painted in 1485. Why does it still fascinate us today?

The Virgin and Child with a landscape beyond by SandroBotticelli is available at Old Master 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction - artnet ...

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.

Five of the nation's most famous paintings have been altered – to show what they'd look like to someone with glaucoma. Pieces by masters Sandro Botticelli and Thomas Gainsborough, among others ...

This past summer, at age 49, I was diagnosed with a rare, incurable cancer called leiomyosarcoma. Doctors predicted I had just a few months to live. I wrote about my experience and heard from ...

For the first time, drawings and recently attributed works by Sandro Botticelli are being celebrated in San Francisco.

Botticelli’s drawings bring us tantalizingly close to the artist, a man as clouded by intimations of darkness, and seeking some salve of beauty, as we are today.

All you ever wanted to know about Botticelli, from a monumental monograph of 1908 to a dynamic account of the artist’s workshop practices—selected by the curator Furio Rinaldi ...