“It’s possible that the irregular eye positioning in the Birth of Venus – the ‘strabismus’ or squint later considered a trait of piety and beauty – may be caused by the pituitary tumor,” senior author ...

Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci was born in Genoa, Italy, on January 28, 1453. She was well-known in Florentine high society for ...

The misaligned gaze of Venus in Sandro Botticelli‘s celebrated masterpiece, The Birth of Venus, has fueled centuries of ...

Spring is the most eagerly awaited season. After the short days and long nights of winter, we watch carefully for the small signs—a green shoot nosing up from under snow, the added minute to a cold ...

Experts have offered more evidence backing their 2019 claim that Simonetta Vespucci, the model in Boticelli's 'Birth of Venus ...

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’ ...

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 ...

The museum’s director, Simone Verde, is working long hours as he tries to remake the institution into a living encyclopedia.

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 ...

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 ...