Sandro Botticelli, "Mystic Nativity" (1500), oil on canvas, 42.7 × 29.5 inches (108.5 × 74.9 cm) (image via Wikimedia Commons) When you hear the name Sandro Botticelli, you might be more likely to ...

Sandro Botticelli, "The Mystical Nativity" (1500), oil on canvas, held at the National Gallery, London (photo via Wikimedia Commons) The Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola had been martyred less than ...

The title of this essay does double duty: it is the title of Botticelli’s painting and the theme I want to explore. On Sundays, we profess our faith in God who is Creator of “all things, visible and ...

Amid the rush to get last-minute presents, the frantic preparations of food and drink, and all that Christmas stuff, Nativity paintings offer a moment of calm and reflection. Whatever your beliefs, it ...

Christmas cards are full of cutesy depictions of nativity scenes, but Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli and Caravaggio remind us of the death in Jesus’s story Nativity scenes are the art we see at ...

Twelve angels dancing in a circle beneath the golden bowl of heaven add a mood of festive gaiety. They hold ribbons and olive branches from which dangle three crowns surrendered, perhaps, by the three ...

Cathy FitzGerald invites you to discover new details in old masterpieces, using your phone, tablet or computer. Each 30-minute episode of Moving Pictures is devoted to a single artwork - and you're ...

Museum director Thomas Campbell calls “Botticelli Drawings,” the new exhibit at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, “a tour de force of scholarship and connoisseurship.” That’s effusive praise for ...

From Venus to the Virgin, Botticelli’s women are renowned as the embodiments of grace, elegance, and beauty. The unique style of the Italian painter—with his idealized, elongated, buoyant figures in ...