“It’s possible that the irregular eye positioning in the Birth of Venus – the ‘strabismus’ or squint later considered a trait of piety and beauty – may be caused by the pituitary tumor,” senior author ...

Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci was born in Genoa, Italy, on January 28, 1453. She was well-known in Florentine high society for ...

Experts have offered more evidence backing their 2019 claim that Simonetta Vespucci, the model in Boticelli's 'Birth of Venus ...

The misaligned gaze of Venus in Sandro Botticelli‘s celebrated masterpiece, The Birth of Venus, has fueled centuries of ...

Spring is the most eagerly awaited season. After the short days and long nights of winter, we watch carefully for the small signs—a green shoot nosing up from under snow, the added minute to a cold ...

The Uffizi Galleries in Florence have hung their two most famous paintings—Sandro Botticelli’s Primavera (around 1480) and ...

Over 10 years after its discovery, the painting found in the Loire Valley church has been confirmed to originate from the renaissance. Tests have confirmed that a painting found in a church is ...

The museum’s director, Simone Verde, is working long hours as he tries to remake the institution into a living encyclopedia.

New research suggests Botticelli's Venus muse died from a rare tumor that went undiagnosed for over 500 years.

Sandro Botticelli’s masterpieces “The Birth of Venus” and “Primavera” have been repositioned at the famed Uffizi Gallery in ...