Artnet

An Unorthodox Show Pairs 8 Botticelli Paintings With Comic-Book Art at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum—See It Here

Was Sandro Botticelli a proto-graphic novelist? That’s a suggestion raised in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s new show “Botticelli: Heroines + Heroes,” which features eight works by Botticelli ...
Fox Business

Botticelli portrait of Jesus Christ sells for $45.4 million

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. Sotheby’s in ...
Artnet

Will This Rare Botticelli Portrait Reset the Old Masters Market? A Renaissance ‘Golden Boy’ Could Fetch $80 Million

Rare, megawatt treasures rarely come up for auction in times of turmoil—and rare, megawatt Old Master treasures rarely come up for auction at all. But Sotheby’s is bucking both of these trends by ...
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 ...
The Art Newspaper

First major show of Sandro Botticelli’s drawings to include five newly attributed works

The first major exhibition dedicated to the drawings of the Sandro Botticelli (around 1445-1510) will open later this year at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. The show will feature almost 60 ...
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 ...
Yahoo

A missing Botticelli masterpiece worth $109 million was hanging in an Italian family's home for decades

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 somehow ...
Observer

Beyond Face Value: Why This Botticelli Portrait Is Worth $80 Million

As galleries postpone show after show and museums are going so far as to sell off blue-chip works just to stay afloat, it is clear the effects of the pandemic are not letting up on the art world. That ...
CNN

One of the last privately-owned Botticelli masterpieces could fetch over $40M

Rare “autograph”-quality paintings by the Early Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli have become the art trade’s equivalent of London buses. You wait and wait and wait, then four of them arrive one ...

Renaissance artists da Vinci and Botticelli may have used egg yolk in their masterpieces, new study finds

Old Masters and Renaissance artists may have used egg yolk in their oil paints to alter and protect their artwork, scientists find.
Hyperallergic

Tracing the Hand of Botticelli

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