A Sandro Botticelli portrait of Jesus Christ with bloodshot eyes and a halo of tiny, weeping angels sold for $45.4 million on Thursday in the latest sign of the art market’s resilience.

At least not since being—I wish you could see me making air quotes—rediscovered in the early 20th century by art historians.” Sandro Botticelli's "The Man of Sorrows." Sotheby's ...

Sandro Botticelli, “The Annunciation,” circa 1490-1495. Oil, tempera, gold leaf on walnut panel. The Archangel Gabriel announces the coming of Jesus to the Virgin.

Topline One of the last paintings by Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli still held in a private collection was auctioned off Thursday for an astonishing $92 million, a record for the ...

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

A painting of Jesus by Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, one of the artist’s later masterpieces and one of the last to remain in private hands, is expected to sell for more than $40 ...

Sotheby’s sold Sandro Botticelli’s circa-1480 portrait of a “Young Man Holding a Roundel” for $92.2 million to a Russian-speaking collector during a live-streamed online sale Thursday ...

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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.

Sandro Botticelli (ca. 1445-1510) was a lucky man. His father, a tanner, apprenticed his talented son first to a goldsmith (the path of Brunelleschi, Donatello, Ghiberti and, in Germany, Dürer ...

A Botticelli masterpiece presumed missing for over 50 years had been hanging in an Italian family's home. Despite the painting being entrusted to the family for safekeeping, authorities had ...

Sandro Botticelli’s iconic goddess of love in his 15th-century masterpiece “Birth of Venus” has now become a “virtual influencer” in a new Italian tourism campaign. The campaign has ...