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

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

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

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

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

“Spalliera” panels depicting parables are reunited at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for the first time in 500 years