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

A painting by the famous Sandro Botticelli believed to be missing for nearly 50 years has been discovered in a family home in the town of Gragnano, south of Naples.

Viewers gravitate to his astonishingly tender paintings, but at the Legion of Honor, his preparatory drawings offer a view of a gifted master of line.

But the exhibit’s modest title and scholarly approach serve as a window into Sandro Botticelli’s Renaissance, with a dozen paintings by him or attributed to his workshop also on view.

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.

In the popular imagination, Sandro Botticelli (c. 1445-1510) is associated with ethereal nymphs, idealized nudes, and blond beauties, thanks largely to the ubiquity of his most famous paintings ...

Sandro Botticelli.jpg Courtesy Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The 15th-century Italian old master Sandro Botticelli was responsible for some of the most famous paintings in history.

Pieces by masters Sandro Botticelli, Thomas Gainsborough, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Georges Seurat and Hans Holbein the Younger were all blurred around the edges.

A painting by the 15th-century master Sandro Botticelli, recorded as missing since the 1980s, has been found at a home in southern Italy.

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 ...