Sandro Botticelli painting could auction for more than $80M, despite pandemic

An enigmatic painting from Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli will go on auction next year and art watchers will be seeing if it fetches more than its eye-watering $80 million US estimate, despite ...
WBUR

A Reunion At The Gardner Museum Brings An Iconic Botticelli Painting To The U.S. For The First Time

Curators at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum inspect and arrange the "The Tragedy of Lucretia" and "The Story of Virginia" by Sandro Botticelli (Jesse Costa/WBUR) Two iconic, Renaissance paintings ...
Hyperallergic

Botticelli Through a Graphic Novelist’s Eye

BOSTON — Set aside your association of Botticelli with the “Birth of Venus” (ca. 1485) and its cool flame of female nudity, and turn your attention to another line in his oeuvre: multi-episodic, ...
Crux

Groundbreaking U.S. art exhibit reveals Botticelli’s ‘search for the divine’

Sandro Botticelli’s painting Saint Augustine in his Study is part of the exhibit “Botticelli and the Search for the Divine” that opened at the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia, and ...
Reuters

Botticelli Reimagined: London exhibition explores painter's influence

LONDON (Reuters) - An exhibition dedicated to Sandro Botticelli opens in London this week, looking at how the 15th century Italian painter influenced artists and designers though the ages. "Botticelli ...
Robb Report

This Botticelli Painting, Once Owned by the Late Paul Allen, Could Fetch $40 Million at Auction

In late August, the auction house made waves when it announced plans to sell $1 billion in art held by Allen. Among the works headed to sale are pieces by Claude Monet, George Seurat, Jasper Johns, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Painting Was Thought to Be a Botticelli Copy. Now, Researchers Say It Was Made in His Studio

Virgin Mary, Infant Christ and the Young St. John the Baptist, studio of Sandro Botticelli, circa 1510 © GrandPalaisRmn / Tony Querrec For centuries, parishioners at ...
WBUR

Botticelli Spun Masterful Scenes Of Historical Complexity

Even before she had a museum, Isabella Stewart Gardner had a Botticelli — the first painting by the late 15th-century Italian artist to enter this country. It wasn’t one of the ravishing masterpieces ...
Mercury News

New SF exhibit reveals origins of those unforgettable Botticelli paintings

Museum director Thomas Campbell calls “Botticelli Drawings,” the new exhibit at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, “a tour de force of scholarship and connoisseurship.” That’s effusive praise for ...
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 ...
NPR

High Art: Were Botticelli's Venus And Mars Stoned?

Among the priceless pieces in London's National Gallery is a painting by 15th-century master Sandro Botticelli. The canvas, called Venus and Mars, depicts the titular deities lounging in a meadow.