Even the painting’s name, “Spring,” was not Botticelli’s idea: it was given to the work by Giorgio Vasari when he saw it some 70 years after it was created. A jewel in the collection of ...

Ed. The Sandro Botticelli exhibit Botticelli and the Search for the Divine: Florentine Paintings between the Medici and the Bonfire of the Vanities at the Muscarelle Museum of Art will be the ...

On Monday, Sandro Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and Spring, two of the most adored artworks in the history of art, were unveiled to the public in a new setting at Florence’s Uffizi Gallery ...

Botticelli pulled Venus's pose from ancient ... a nymph associated with spring and blossoming flowers like those flowing through the picture. 2. It MAY CONTAIN VERY SUBTLE hidden genitalia.

A new exhibition of Botticelli's paintings shows many different sides to one of the greatest Italian artists of the 15th century… A new exhibition of Botticelli's paintings shows many different ...

Two activists of Ultima Generazione (Last Generation) glued themselves to the glass protecting Botticelli's Primavera (Spring) in the Uffizi Gallery . Photo / Ultima Generation via AP ...

Respighi's colorful subjects included the fountains and pines of Rome, and the Botticelli Triptych: three Renaissance paintings by Sandro Botticelli that hang in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.