The Italian painter Sandro Botticelli (1444-1510) was one of the major Renaissance artists in Florence, which was the center for innovative painting in fifteenth-century Europe. Sandro Botticelli was born several generations after Donatello, Masaccio,...

Sandro Botticelli (1444-1510). La Primavera (Spring), 1477. Tempera on wood panel; 203 x 314 cm. Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy. THINGS TO LEARN * Sandro Botticelli was born Alessandro Filipepi in Florence, Italy, in 1445. The word botticelli is Italian for "little...

ABOUT THIS PAINTING With the coming of spring, this month's Clip & Save Art Print features one of art history's most debated works of art. La Primavera, by the quattrocento Florentine painter. Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510). Italian for spring, this painting received its...

Italian scientists believe they have uncovered a 400-year-old murder. Historians have long suspected that Francesco de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and his second wife Bianca Cappello did not die of malaria but were poisoned _ probably by Francesco's brother, Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici, who...

A face that will tease you, and please you and perhaps unease you is coming to the post office next year, it's those Bette Davis eyes.On the 100th anniversary of her birth the great actress will be honored on a commemorative stamp, the 14th in...