Under the National Treasures scheme, 12 UK museums are mounting exhibitions around the loan of masterpieces from the National Gallery

Our pick of the best objects up for sale in London and New York

Supermarket chain Lidl commissioned a new version of the 15th-century masterpiece

UK optician Specsavers and National Gallery team up for campaign to highlight effects of eye condition

All you ever wanted to know about Botticelli, from a monumental monograph of 1908 to a dynamic account of the artist’s workshop practices—selected by the curator Furio Rinaldi

Last checked by the authorities in over 50 years ago, the painting had been kept in a private home since the 1980s and is in extremely poor condition

The writer and art historian Nick Trend tells us how he chose the art for his new book and why such choices can often be subjective

Kody Young fills in the blanks for Leonardo, Hopper and Botticelli

The use of a computerised mascot of the Renaissance figure to promote Italian culture has been described as “humiliating” and “grotesque”

Research for a forthcoming exhibition at the Legion of Honor museum has led a curator to add three new entries to Botticelli's oeuvre

Exhibition at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor will bring together 27 drawings and reunite Uffizi’s Adoration of the Magi with its preparatory designs for the first time

The exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art features more than 45 works from the Florentine museum

From Michelangelo's David to Botticelli's Birth of Venus, our guide tells you what to see and where to see it

The painting, sold last week at Sotheby's for $45.4m, was listed among workshop and studio pictures in Ronald Lightbown’s 1978 catalogue of Botticelli’s work, before being included as an autograph work in an exhibition at Frankfurt's Städel Museum in 2009. Here, in a pair of opinion pieces, two Renaissance experts give their contrasting views on its attribution

The painting, sold last week at Sotheby's for $45.4m, was listed among workshop and studio pictures in Ronald Lightbown’s 1978 catalogue of Botticelli’s work, before being included as an autograph work in an exhibition at Frankfurt's Städel Museum in 2009. Here, in a pair of opinion pieces, two Renaissance experts give their contrasting views on its attribution

Plus, Botticelli in New York and gender in Asian art in San Francisco

The star lot of the sale, a rediscovered and austere portrait of Christ, hammered just below its estimate

Infrared images of the painting, which is due to be sold at Sotheby's in New York later this month, show that an earlier composition lies underneath

Technical studies on neglected painting cast valuable light on the workings of the Renaissance master's Florence studio and on the question of attribution

Auction house will sell the painting in January and is dubbing it "The defining masterpiece of Botticelli's late career". But what exactly does that mean?

A new show looks at the Renaissance artist’s role as a designer and head of a busy workshop as well as the inventor of an instantly recognisable style

New book by Martin Kemp considers the impact of poet’s vision of divine light on artists such as Michelangelo and Titian

The cult of the individual reigns supreme but in reality Renaissance works were often not made by one hand

A portrait of a Young man holding a roundel (around 1470-80) by the Renaissance master seemingly sold to a Russian buyer

Suzy Lewis recalls the "absolute disaster" of the painting's 1982 sale

Star lot of upcoming New York Master Week sales is set to smash previous auction record for the Early Renaissance painter

Florence gallery also planning vast exhibition dedicated to the poet in Forlì featuring works by Michelangelo

New exhibition at Musée Jacquemart-André presents 15th-century artist as an entrepreneur and prolific designer

The painting, to be offered at Sotheby's New York in January, is estimated to sell for 100 times more than the owner paid for it in 1982

We introduced some invasive flora and fauna, and a few subtle deletions to Botticelli's Primevera to keep you entertained during lockdown