€100m Botticelli painting forgotten for 50 years recovered from Naples home
July 2022
Climate activists in Italy glue themselves to Botticelli painting
Members of Ultima Generazione (Last Generation) attach themselves to frame’s glass to protest without damaging artwork
May 2022
Socks, squats and sex workers: The Woman in the Window review
This thoughtful exhibition shows how artists have utilised windows for more than just voyeuristic thrills. But it has a Vermeer-shaped hole
November 2020
Vatican enlists bots to protect library from onslaught of hackers
Apostolic Library, facing 100 threats a month, wants to ensure readers can trust digitised records of its historical treasures
September 2020
Notebook
In a 'good country' league table, where would the UK stand now?
Tim Adams
Disregard for international law does not figure in Simon Anholt’s new book on what makes a nation great
The $80m Botticelli: could its auction trigger a Covid-rescue fire sale?
If the Renaissance artist’s wavy-haired youth can fetch $80m, will collections start selling off masterpieces to get them through the pandemic? Could the RA’s Michelangelo be next?
'True beauty for the ages': $80m Botticelli to appear at auction
Sotheby’s says estimate for 550-year-old painting is largest it has ever set for an old master
October 2019
Botticelli in the Fire review – audacious Renaissance romp
The painter resembles a drunken YBA in a flawed but timely show that veers from camp humour to political intrigue
March 2019
Botticelli 'copy' found to be rare original from artist's workshop
Restoration uncovers details that show painting was made in old master’s Florence studio
August 2017
Lydia Towsey: how I discovered the Venus in me
From Botticelli to glossy magazines, women have been idealised and misrepresented for centuries. Performance poet Lydia Towsey reveals how her own near-fatal eating disorder set her on a path to explore new ways of looking at female bodies
July 2016
Jonathan Jones on art
Jousting isn't sport, it's a crazy art. Think Game of Thrones, then double it
Jonathan Jones
More than medieval mock combat, jousting was about sex, spectacle and excess – and Holbein, Da Vinci and Botticelli are among the great artists who participated
March 2016
Botticelli Reimagined; Botticelli and Treasures from the Hamilton Collection – review
Everyone from Warhol to Dolce & Gabbana pays homage to this most modern of Renaissance masters in a beautifully choreographed show at the V&A
Destination Venus: how Botticelli became a brand
From saucer-eyed Manga cartoons to a bullet-breasted pin up, from the pre-Raphaelites to Lady Gaga’s D&G dress, a new V&A exhibition reveals how generations of artists have repurposed Botticelli’s ideal of female beauty
Botticelli Reimagined review – Venus in the gutter, more beautiful than ever
By submerging Botticelli and his Venus in the trashy pool of pop and tourist culture they have inspired, this landmark V&A show elevates them both
February 2016
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Botticelli goes pop and Yoko tells the time – the week in art
The V&A’s Botticelli Reimagined show opens alongside his drawings over at the Courtauld, while Oxford hosts a starry group show with Douglas Gordon and Elizabeth Price
Rare Botticelli drawings to go on display in London alongside 14th-century bible
Artist’s works illustrating scenes from Dante’s Divine Comedy considered to be some of the finest Renaissance drawings
Beauty reimagined: 500 years of Botticelli
Botticelli’s Birth of Venus has captivated us for centuries. On the eve of a stunning V&A exhibition, we ask four experts what beauty means personally to them
January 2016
My best shot
ORLAN's best photograph: a striptease in the style of Botticelli
‘The sheets were for my wedding trousseau, but I covered them in sperm and used them for a striptease instead’
August 2015
The world's greatest paintings – in emojis
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers is now made of smileys, Klimt’s Kiss is recast in doughnuts and devil faces – and Hokusai’s Great Wave is full of pandas. Emoji Mosaic is a new tool that drags modern art into the digital age
