Sandro Botticelli | smithsonianmag.comhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/rss/tag/sandro-botticelli/RSS feed for Sandro BotticellienTue, 21 Apr 2026 15:55:23 +0000Renaissance Art Linked Beauty With Virtue and Ugliness With Vice. See How Painters From Leonardo da Vinci to Botticelli Viewed Physical Attractivenesshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/renaissance-art-linked-beauty-with-virtue-and-ugliness-with-vice-see-how-painters-from-leonardo-da-vinci-to-botticelli-viewed-physical-attractiveness-180988584/An exhibition in Brussels spotlights 90-plus artworks featuring golden-haired muses, greedy old men and those deemed unattractive simply because they were differentTue, 21 Apr 2026 15:55:23 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/renaissance-art-linked-beauty-with-virtue-and-ugliness-with-vice-see-how-painters-from-leonardo-da-vinci-to-botticelli-viewed-physical-attractiveness-180988584/This Painting Was Thought to Be a Botticelli Copy. Now, Researchers Say It Was Made in His Studiohttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-painting-was-thought-to-be-a-botticelli-copy-now-researchers-think-it-was-made-in-his-studio-180985179/A new analysis suggests that the piece was created by several artists working in the Italian Renaissance painter's studio—and that Botticelli himself may have worked on important detailsMon, 07 Oct 2024 18:44:18 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-painting-was-thought-to-be-a-botticelli-copy-now-researchers-think-it-was-made-in-his-studio-180985179/Climate Activists Stage Protest in Front of Botticelli's 'Birth of Venus'https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/climate-activists-stage-protest-in-front-of-botticellis-birth-of-venus-180983797/Two men taped images of flooding in Tuscany to the Renaissance painting's protective glassWed, 14 Feb 2024 20:22:30 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/climate-activists-stage-protest-in-front-of-botticellis-birth-of-venus-180983797/Pop-Up Exhibition Brings Masterpieces From London's National Gallery Outdoorshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/open-air-exhibition-england-displays-reproductions-old-master-paintings-1-180978425/An open-air display in Trafalgar Square features more than 20 life-size reproductions of works by Vincent van Gogh, Titian and moreFri, 13 Aug 2021 10:30:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/open-air-exhibition-england-displays-reproductions-old-master-paintings-1-180978425/When the Monuments Men Pushed Back Against the U.S. to Protect Priceless Arthttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/monuments-men-world-war-ii-nazi-art-cultural-heritage-180978131/A new show spotlights the scholars who protested the controversial, post-war American tour of 202 German-owned artworksFri, 09 Jul 2021 15:41:23 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/monuments-men-world-war-ii-nazi-art-cultural-heritage-180978131/One of the Last Privately Owned Botticelli Portraits Just Sold for $92 Millionhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-botticelli-portrait-could-sell-over-80-million-180975908/The 15th-century painting, which went up for auction at Sotheby's Thursday, depicts a young Florentine manFri, 25 Sep 2020 15:18:50 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-botticelli-portrait-could-sell-over-80-million-180975908/This $22,000 Book Features Life-Size Photos of the Sistine Chapel's Arthttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/20000-book-shows-sistine-chapel-real-scale-180976152/The pricey tome consists of three 25-pound, two-foot-tall volumesThu, 29 Oct 2020 15:28:12 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/20000-book-shows-sistine-chapel-real-scale-180976152/An Unidentified Botticelli Painting Spent Decades Hidden in Welsh Museum's Storeroomhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/tv-show-helps-welsh-museum-discover-botticelli-their-storeroom-180973564/The newly attributed masterpiece was previously believed to be a crude copy of the artist's workMon, 18 Nov 2019 16:03:58 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/tv-show-helps-welsh-museum-discover-botticelli-their-storeroom-180973564/