Protesters from the action group Ultima Generazione plastered photographs of floods onto Sandro Botticelli's <em>Birth of Venus</em> in Florence, Italy. Credit ...

Two climate activists were arrested in Italy after covering Botticelli's masterpiece, "The Birth of Venus," with images of recent flood damage in the Tuscany region. The activists stood in front of ...

Climate activists plastered photos of Campi Bisenzio, a Tuscan town ravaged by flooding last year, over the glass protecting Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, ...

Greek mythology has been reflected in paintings and hundreds of vivid works that have come to be considered masterpieces.

Like many famous artworks from the Italian Renaissance, Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus (1485) has a larger-than-life quality. The painting, which depicts the Roman goddess of beauty emerging ...

Protesters with the activist group Last Generation stand in front of Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Venus at Florence's Uffizi Gallery on February 13. Laura Lezza / Getty Images On Tuesday evening, ...

Two climate activists on Tuesday targeted Botticelli’s masterpiece “The Birth of Venus” hanging at Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, attaching images of recent flood damage in the Tuscany region on the ...

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“We ask the government to take concrete action to support communities affected by climate disasters,” the group said in its post. On its website, the group says it wants a permanent “repair fund” of ...