“Botticelli’s Secret” isn’t really about a secret. To prove the point, I’ll spoil it right away. The Florentine painter illustrated a Florentine poet’s poem, a project that went into political and ...

Read our latest issue or browse back issues. The sweeping panorama Luzzi unfolds stretches from the 14th century to the present day, from the workshops of Florence, where art was made, to the bunkers ...

Sandro Botticelli, 'Dante and Beatrice in the second planetary sphere of Paradise', c.1481-1495© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett / Philipp Allard Sometimes barely there at all, their ...

Some things in the history of literature seem too good to be true: Alexander Pope’s translations of Homer, Henri Matisse’s illustrations of “Ulysses.” Among the most surprising are the illustrations ...

The master meanwhile was chiefly occupied with the great illustrated Dante which he had undertaken for that model patron, Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco. To study the Dante illustrations in detail would ...

Max Norman laments that Joseph Luzzi’s new book “Botticelli’s Secret” focuses on the history of Botticelli’s long-forgotten illustrations of “The Divine Comedy,” not on the illustrations themselves ...

One of only two of Sandro Botticelli’s paintings of an isolated Venus will be on view for the first time in the United States, together with other Botticelli mythologies and portraits, in Botticelli ...

William Blake, “Antaeus Setting Down Dante and Virgil in the Last Circle of Hell” (between 1824 and 1827), pen, ink, and watercolor, 20.7 x 14.72 inches; The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, ...

Sandro Botticelli’s painting Saint Augustine in his Study is part of the exhibit “Botticelli and the Search for the Divine” that opened at the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia, and ...

Viewers gravitate to his astonishingly tender paintings, but at the Legion of Honor, his preparatory drawings offer a view of a gifted master of line. By Karen Rosenberg Reporting from San Francisco ...

A new series explores intimate encounters with a single work of art. This week, we look at Sandro Botticelli’s “Paradiso” (1480–1495). These columns, a selection of which was published in book form by ...

A billionaire scientist, Bertrand Zobrist, has created a virus that will kill half of the Earth's population. As the Earth's population continues to grow at an exponential rate, Zobrist believes that, ...