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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Botticelli's Mystic Nativity is, at first glance, the perfect Yuletide image. Available as a Christmas card, it is also being beamed onto the Sainsbury wing facade, glowing over Trafalgar Square. What ...

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 ...

As uncertainty looms over our world, this program reveals the story of the Mystic Nativity - Sandro Botticelli's beautiful image of hope in troubled times. As uncertainty looms over our world, this ...

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 ...

Sandro Botticelli, "The Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist" ("Madonna of the Rose Garden") (c. 1468), tempera and gold on poplar panel, 35 3/4 x 26 3/8 inches; Musée du Louvre (© ...