CNBC

A rare Botticelli portrait could fetch $80 million in Sotheby's auction

An ultra-rare portrait by the famed Italian painter Sandro Botticelli, called "Young Man Holding a Roundel," could fetch $80 million or more when it comes up for sale at Sotheby's on Thursday. The ...
Hyperallergic

Botticelli's Venuses and Our Enduring Need for Beauty

Sandro Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” (1444 or 1445–1510) In the 1960s, my childhood bedroom was covered with images of Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” torn from an art book in my parents’ ...
Euronews

Church-found painting confirmed from Botticelli's studio

Over 10 years after its discovery, the painting found in the Loire Valley church has been confirmed to originate from the renaissance. Tests have confirmed that a painting found in a church is ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Botticelli painting called Young Man Holding a Roundel sells for $120 million at Sotheby's auction

A small painting by Sandro Botticelli has sold at auction for $120 million, a record for the Renaissance master. The work titled Young Man Holding a Roundel is one of only about a dozen of ...
Scientific American

550 years later, scientists claim to have solved what killed Botticelli’s muse

Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli painted Simonetta Vespucci as Venus rising from the waves. Now scientists think ...
Forbes

This Rare Botticelli Painting Could Sell For More Than $40 Million

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 ...

Harappa to Botticelli: 5,000 years of the mother icon

The anchor of a small but outstanding exhibition of Indian and Italian masterpieces titled One Mother, Many Tongues, now on ...
Yahoo

Mystery behind Botticelli’s Birth of Venus side-eye solved — and the reason is heartbreaking

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Venus wasn't just serving side-eye -- she may have been revealing history's oldest missed diagnosis. For more than 500 years, ...
Artnet

A Long-Lost Painting from Botticelli’s Studio Is Rediscovered in a French Church

From the 1800s until just a few years ago, parishioners at the church of Saint Félix in the small town of Champigny-en-Beauce in France’s Loire Valley attended services in the presence of a painting ...
Artnet

A Museum in Wales Had a Botticelli Right Under Their Noses and Didn’t Realize It Until This Helpful TV Art Detective Told Them

This week it’s a Botticelli, last week a Brueghel. The number of Old Masters in UK museums that would never see the light of day unless the broadcaster and art historian Bendor Grosvenor has spotted ...
Los Angeles Times

Rare Botticelli portrait could fetch more than $80 million at auction

NEW YORK — An enigmatic painting from Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli will go on auction next year, with the art world watching to see if it fetches more than $80 million despite the economic ...