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

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?

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

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

Does putting the Renaissance artist's work in a modern context enhance or diminish his art?

This is the first time the Florentine museum has formed a long-term partnership with a foreign institution

The Madonna and Child at National Museum Cardiff was believed to be a copy

Painting will be exhibited at Frieze Masters next month, after a "style of Botticelli" sleeper sold for over £6m at Zurich auction in June