A long-lost painting by Sandro Botticelli, depicting the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus, was found in a family home in Gragnano, Italy, south of Naples. The masterpiece, missing for nearly 50 years ...

making this memorable portrait one of Botticelli’s most famous works. There’s electricity between the hands of the archangel Gabriel and a demure Virgin Mary in this Annunciation, commissioned ...

The picture at English Heritage's Ranger's House in Greenwich, London, is now thought to be the closest version of Botticelli's 1487 masterpiece, which shows a melancholy Virgin Mary holding a ...

But Botticelli’s painted inscription above ... that was once inscribed with the 12 privileges or virtues of the Virgin Mary, sourced from a separate sermon Savonarola delivered about a vision ...

Tests have confirmed that a painting found in a church is actually a long-lost Botticelli-era masterpiece. First hung in the Saint Félix Church, in the Champigny-en-Beauce village of France’s ...