The goddess perches upon a giant scallop shell, pale green waves lapping around her. Her long golden hair rustles in the wind as she is blown to shore upon her seashell vessel. She is nude, her body ...

The Lonely Palette podcast brings art history to everyone. Host Tamar Avishai interviews museum visitors about famous ...

screenprint in a unique colour combination on Arches Aquarelle paper image: 637 by 943 mm. 25⅛ by 37⅛ in. sheet: 814 by 1119 mm. 32 by 44 in. Executed in 1984; this impression is one of 36 trial ...

Rich Grilloti, “Birth of Venus” (2010) (image from killscreen.com) Botticelli’s original “The Birth of Venus” is hanging in a soul-stirring gallery in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, a masterpiece of ...

Botticelli’s iconic painting reshaped Renaissance art through its celebration of classical mythology and beauty. This episode ...

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 ...

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 ...