Government bans early work of Botticelli from being exported out of UK The painting by the Italian master Sandro Botticelli is at risk of leaving the country ...

The UK government has placed an export bar on a painting of the Virgin Mary by Sandro Botticelli valued at £10.2m. The work, The Virgin and Child Enthroned (1470s), was sold at Sotheby’s London ...

The U.K. government has temporarily barred the export of a $13.5 million Botticelli, hoping to save the rare early work for the nation.

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Head to the gift shop and take your time perusing the carefully curated offerings — you will always find products featuring the masterpieces on exhibition, alongside one-of-a-kind works by local ...

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

Auctions Botticelli’s $12.6 Million Masterpiece Leads London’s Old Masters Sales The 15th-century work had never before been offered at auction. Sandro Botticelli, The Virgin and Child Enthroned.

Six were painted by Piero del Pollaiuolo, while one of them, Fortitude, was the first recorded commission of a then little-known artist called Sandro Botticelli, completed in 1479 when he was just 25.

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.

A painting long thought to be a 19th-century copy has been attributed to the studio of Botticelli and will be displayed alongside the original at Chambord Castle.