Over 10 years after its discovery, the painting found in the Loire Valley church has been confirmed to originate from the ...

The Birth of Venus, a painting by the Italian artist Botticelli, depicts the goddess Venus at the shore after her birth.

Sandro Botticelli, widely regarded as a master of the Italian Renaissance, has been described as the “Dante of painting,” a comparison made by art historian Annalisa Di Maria.

Now, a new analysis has challenged that narrative. It turns out that the painting isn’t a copy. It actually comes straight from Botticelli’s studio. The painting depicts the Virgin Mary and a ...

Culturali e del Turismo) A painting in a Catholic church in central France, long believed to be a 19th-century replica of a Sandro Botticelli canvas, is in fact the work of the artist’s studio ...

1445-1510). From October 19, 2024, to January 19, 2025, the public can compare the two paintings in person at the “Botticelli: Two Madonnas at Chambord” exhibition. The newly-authenticated ...

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.