Sandro Botticelli's "Adoration of the Magi", commissioned by the banker Gaspare di Zanobi del Lama, became a famous work not only for its great artistic quality, but above all for the way in which ...

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Leonardo sketched her. Lorenzo de`Medici threw lavish banquets in her honor. Pulci and Poliziano composed great poems for her. Young men fell in love with her on the spot. Many great Italian ...

The young nobleman gazing out of the canvas may have been a member of the House of Medici, whose powerful patriarch raised taxes on the wealthy of Renaissance Florence. Now the 540-year-old painting, ...

The rare masterpiece that Sotheby’s will auction next week is shrouded in mystery and offers an opportunity to reassess the master’s lost oeuvre. Sandro Botticelli, Young Man Holding a Roundel, ca.